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'The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument' is a work by the eminent German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (German: Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788–1860). Eristics is the science of conducting a dispute correctly, ensuring that one of the interlocutors will always remain unconvinced, thereby considering themselves right. Other works by Schopenhauer include 'On the Will in Nature', 'On the Freedom of the Will', 'On the Basis of Morality', 'The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics', 'On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason' and 'The World as Will and Representation' Arthur Schopenhauer was called a 'pessimistic philosopher': he believed the existing world to be 'the worst possible,' in contrast to the German thinker Gottfried Leibniz.