"I just tell people this-- if your efforts to persuade have not borne good fruit, SOMEbody in the discussion isn't being what they say they mean to be, and usually it's TWO somebodies, not just one of them."


If you are trying to persuade someone of something that is not true, you will encounter very similar phenomena to those you encounter trying to communicate with someone who isn't really communicating. Viz, a decrease of understanding and an inflexibility of "space".   In live communication the "sense of space" increases.

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