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Accuracy, sincerity are hallmarks of a good argument

NAIROBI: A discourse on language or on any other issue is supposed to be serious work which requires that one relies heavily on nothing but well supported hard facts.

While Prof Mauri Yambo would expect a person involved in serious discussion to present facts and let the facts speak, Charles Dickens in ‘Hard Times’ would want the participant to stick to sheer facts, because, according to the writer, truisms alone are what’s required in life.

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