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1.What is your most formal experience as an advocate? What were the circumstances and where did the rules of argument and procedure come from? How did it go? Did the formal “technicalities” ever prevent true facts and good ideas from being appreciated?

2.What aspects of your daily life involves argumentative activity? With whom do you argue regularly and in what settings? How can studying argumentation improve those? If it cannot help, why not?

3.Have you ever observed a trial? Were you surprised by the way arguments were presented and refuted? Was the outcome just? If not, why not?

4.Do you argue with yourself? Why do you think people do this?

5.The philosopher Schopenhauer said that people can “do what they will, but they cannot will what they will.” Are free will and independent decision-making an illusion? If not, why not?