The list of superpower leaders and geopolitical strategists with whom Trump has engaged in frank and fruitful exchanges of viewpoints includes Mikhail Gorbachev, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, former Secretary of Defense William Perry, and the entire Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The prolonged absence of direct leadership or clear policy provided society with ample time and opportunity for public debate, which is a collective learning process through a set of exchanges of viewpoints and/or social confrontations.
At this point, according to observers, both statesmen decided — by seemingly unspoken mutual consent — to abandon the gutter patois of the common carnival worker and to resort instead to an eminently more quotable (but, to those not versed in the vagaries of hip-hop idiom, more confusing) exchange of viewpoints.
The exchange of viewpoints is seen as a 'critical discussion' in Pragma-dialectics, which involves a continuous evaluation by the interactants of the opinions that are being exchanged.
This bodes ill for the free exchange of viewpoints that is supposed to be taking place in the quintessential "marketplace of ideas," the college campus.
It entails a combination of on the one hand scientific methods of assessment, and on the other hand deliberation and the exchange of viewpoints between different relevant actors.
Bridges of friendship The dialogue featured various presentations intended to inspire and promote the exchange of viewpoints between the youths from various countries.
The two-and-a-half-hour dialogue – supported by UNICEF, the World Bank and Tokyo Development Learning Centre – aimed to identify youth perspectives on challenges and expectations for sustainable and inclusive growth in Africa, as well as facilitate the exchange of viewpoints between African and Asian youth.
The result, as we intended, is that our students and faculty note a richer exchange of ideas and a wider range of viewpoints from people with more varied experiences.
Encouraging an open exchange of ideas and viewpoints, Einstein was not afraid of disagreement, which bode well for the meetings of the four scientists since, according to Burton Feldman, the author of 112 Mercer Street: "four more varied - and difficult -- people would be hard to find" [Feldman, p. 19].
That way, he gets a range of viewpoints.
