Bulverism

Lewis' essay on Bulverism is not actually about Bulverism at all; Bulverism is just a digression he continually returns to. Lewis is really talking about the way differing worldviews are discoursed. He points out how many times reasonable arguments are in fact not reasonable, and how other arguments are not actually relevant. Then he mentions that many times the arguments are made personal (though quite irrational and irrelevant) by a technique he calls Bulverism. Once this is stated, he goes back to arguing for rationale and logic in discussing big issues. Bulverism is a distraction from discourse, and it is a negative one. In the case of this essay, I think Bulverism is also a distraction from what he's actually getting at, though perhaps this distraction is more important than the actual topic of discussion.