9.Guarding premises 9.守衛處所 Segment nine guardian, 第九段守護者，  our first way tostart an argument without having to justify the premises is to weaken or guardthose premises. Now this strategy might seem counterintuitive. Don't we wantstrong premises instead of weak ones. Well, that depends on your goals and alsoon what you mean by the term weak. If your goal is to draw attention to yourclaims and yourself, then you might try to make outrageous claims. 我們在不必為前提辯護的情況下開始辯論的第一個方法是削弱或保護這些前提。現在這一策略似乎有悖常理。我們不需要強前提而不是弱前提。好吧，這取決於你的目標，也取決於你所說的“軟弱”一詞的含義。如果你的目標是讓人們注意到你和你自己的主張，那麼你可能會試圖做出無恥的聲明。  However, whenyou claim a lot, then it becomes easier for others to criticize your claim andyou to show that you're wrong. For example, suppose somebody says everybody whoknows anything about COVID-19 knows more 然而，當你要求很多的時...