ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a good strategy to anticipate how a critique might be developed in presenting your original demonstration, and to defuse that critique at that point. When confronting a critique, one of the first items to consider is whether the critic correctly understood your argument. The second way of responding to a critique is to show that the objections made in the critique are themselves flawed. Instead of providing the evidence for the original position, one can try to undercut the critic's attempt to raise doubts or to disprove the premise. There are times at which a defense is inappropriate. In mounting defense of the argument there are two basic strategies: First one can buttress the argument to show that the argument does not have the flaw or flaws that the critique claimed. Second, one can critique the critics and show that in making the objections to the arguments they employed invalid arguments or false premises.
