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**How to compose a successful critical commentary:**
1. You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.”
2. You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
3. You should mention anything that you have learned from your target.
4. Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.
Daniel Dennett: Tools for Critical Thinking
Farnam Street
Grice's Maxims
1. **The maxim of quantity**, where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much information as is needed, and no more.
2. **The maxim of quality**, where one tries to be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not supported by evidence.
3. **The maxim of relation**, where one tries to be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion.
4. **The maxim of manner**, when one tries to be as clear, as brief, and as orderly as one can in what one says, and where one avoids obscurity and ambiguity.
The D-N-I Echo: The Essence of Winning and Losing, by John R. Boyd
Daniel Ford
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