Chapter 12: The Assumption Negation Technique . This was the secret door. If you negate an assumption and the argument collapses, you’ve found the heart. She practiced on commercials, political debates, her mother’s guilt trips. “You didn’t call, so you don’t love me.” Negate the assumption: You can not call and still love someone. Argument: dust.
Old Maya would have felt the argument. Would have reacted .
“This book won’t teach you what to think. It will teach you how to stop being tricked. Use it well.”
By week two, the Bible wasn’t a book. It was a lens. Maya walked into a world that was suddenly fragile, full of hidden premises and circular reasoning. Her friends found her insufferable. “Just say you’re busy,” they begged. “Don’t diagram my text message.”
When she finished, she set her pencil down. The clock said twenty minutes remained.
Her pencil moved. Premise. Conclusion. Flaw. Answer choice B—the one that negated the hidden link. She bubbled it in without a heartbeat of doubt. Then the next. Then the next.
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