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- noun rhetoric A concession to an adversary in order to strengthen one's own argument.
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If you back yourself in a corner you can loose, but if you are willing to concede some points to the other side you can diminish the power of those arguments and then hit them with your own, more awesome points. paromologia ( "admitting a weaker point in order to make a stronger one").
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