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The highlighting technique makes me wonder whether some of How to Read a Book's approach could be executed this way, surfacing the text's structural skeleton through levels of inline markup, rather than by making a parallel summarizing outline. I'll need to try these plugins!
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Also: any claims one team makes which aren't specifically refuted by the opposing team are taken to be true! The fast-talkers are fast-talking to make as many claims as possible—and the opposing team has to track and then refute each one!
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I also find the policy debate community totally fascinating—my partner Lingxi is a recovering debater—but somehow argumentation games where you have to reach a predestined conclusion don't sit right with me.
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Then again, maybe participants end up with the tools required to understand arguments from multiple perspectives? I go back and forth on this. Probably in large part a matter of team culture and coaching.
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Lingxi insists that debate really is about making quality arguments, and that most of the time that's what you get. Which seems consistent with how most debaters I know talk about it.
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