"The man often believes that if he hears words ...

After an excellent introduction that attempts to justify the slightly disturbing assertion that the dialectic is an intellectual fencing to be always right in the controversy, without worrying about the side in which the truth seems to be, Schopenhauer described 38 dialectical stratagems, as many weapons to overcome its views or bad faith, according to the side in which we place ourselves.

Some are relatively natural, such as the ad hominem attack, personal attack rather than on reasoning, but their analysis helps to identify and dismantle them easily; others are clearly dishonest, as one who is to act as if we had proved our assertion by claiming that the deduction that we wanted to prove by controversy, although it does not result in any, is not less demonstrated, and to proclaim triumphantly, or simply against potentially-productive (say false things by betting on the ignorance of his audience).

It will be appreciated alert style Schopenhauer ("For most men, innate vanity is accompanied by incontinence language and a native dishonesty."); the question that remains to be answered is: are we really sure you want to strengthen its own bad faith by reading the treaty? We warned you ...
Remember: "The objective truth of a proposition and the value thereof, as reflected in the approval of critics and listeners, are two different things."