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The Theory of Parli: July 2012
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The Theory of Parli. Monday, July 2, 2012. Answering some comments - Stories and Speed. Will, can you extrapolate on "The more detailed a projection of the future, the less likely it is to come to pass"? While this makes sense from a rational position it seems that in debate rounds it is important to provide the most detailed scenario for impact comparison.". And Nassim Taleb goes into a great amount of detail about the problem in The Black Swan. I'm interested in your aphorism, "If you can't win a fast ...
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Debate Theory Library | Topic Areas
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A blog for parli debaters. The articles come from journals, conferences, magazines, blogs and forums. As much as possible, I tried to find a relevant video lecture for each subject. Part I: Outside the Round. Scott Detherage’s “The Speech”. Part II: In-Round Issues. Part III: Specific Positions and Arguments. Intrinsicness on the DA. The Representations K and Judge Choice. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). Post ...
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The Theory of Parli: Annotations on an implicit ballot
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The Theory of Parli. Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Annotations on an implicit ballot. Better to make a bad decision than to refrain from making one. If the alternative is magic, the permutation won't save you. Better to use absurdities to your advantage than to explain why they are absurd. Better to explain why they are absurd than to scoff. Debate is a game. If you can defend it as such, you shouldn't lose framework. If you want to change the norms of the community, win debates under the current set of norms.
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The Theory of Parli: May 2012
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The Theory of Parli. Friday, May 18, 2012. Arguments that annoy me: Political Capital. If the words "political capital" are present in your politics shell, you're doing it wrong. Try and turn that. It's not fun. You can probably win some defense against it (in fact, a lot of defense against it) but it's so specific as to be insulated from most of the generic crap people throw at it. And if they say "political capital high" in response? Today, President Barack Obama spent his whole day in closed-door meet...
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The Theory of Parli: January 2012
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The Theory of Parli. Monday, January 30, 2012. Be confident in the face of your opponents, and humble in the face of your craft. This guy speaks pretty fast. Sunday, January 29, 2012. Voters vs. Visions. Obviously this is a terrible way to give a rebuttal. But, even you, the advanced debater, are probably not doing that much differently. How exactly is this different than listing off twenty voters? Right, it isn't. Be The Judo Master. You can see where this is going. If you are every in a debate roun...
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The Theory of Parli: Entitled to Understand
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The Theory of Parli. Thursday, February 2, 2012. Let's face it: NPDA Parliamentary Debate is an extremely strange format of debate. It was designed almost 20 years ago, and it was designed to be a slow, non-technical, non-logocentric type of debate. 20 years later, the activity has little to no resemblance to what its designers intended it to be, but we are still using the same structure. You'll notice something about most top-level parli debaters. They feel entitled to understand their opponents' ar...
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The Theory of Parli: Better Blocks vs. Better Templates
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The Theory of Parli. Friday, March 9, 2012. Better Blocks vs. Better Templates. Can you post something about how to work on writing efficient blocks? I think in some ways the way you have framed the question is very revealing. The urge to find a way to write the perfect block is understandable. If, before the debate, we could come up with a set of slayer arguments that applied to any disad or any criticism that might come our way, then we don't even have to think in round! 1 (Optional) - We Meet. C Our c...
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The Theory of Parli: June 2012
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The Theory of Parli. Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Annotations on an implicit ballot. Better to make a bad decision than to refrain from making one. If the alternative is magic, the permutation won't save you. Better to use absurdities to your advantage than to explain why they are absurd. Better to explain why they are absurd than to scoff. Debate is a game. If you can defend it as such, you shouldn't lose framework. If you want to change the norms of the community, win debates under the current set of norms.
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The Theory of Parli: Strategy
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The Theory of Parli. Saturday, January 28, 2012. What does it mean to be great at parli? A great debater is erudite. A good debater has a wealth of knowledge about the world, enough that they rarely find themselves stumped. A great debater is technically classy. Fast delivery, crisp articulation, an economical and efficient way with words, and a clean flow are the hallmarks of the technically classy debater. And finally, a great debater is strategic. So what about strategy? You might say "well, that soun...
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The Theory of Parli: Read a book, read a book...
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The Theory of Parli. Thursday, May 17, 2012. Read a book, read a book. Most of you are probably wrapping up finals (except for my former quarter-system charges at Oregon and others elsewhere, sadface) and are eagerly anticipating freedom from academic work for a few months. 1 See the title. By Steven Pinker in your critical theory class, nor will you be reading The Rational Optimist. By Matt Ridley or The Delinquent Teenager. Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness.
