Debate has always struck me as a bureaucrat’s idea of healthy discourse. Just like “scientific method” is a bureaucrat’s idea of sciencing.
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Happy to come across that stance on the scientific method in the wild - haven’t seen it very often outside of philosophy publications. I love “Against Method”
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Although in my mind a debate is naturally unstructured, chaotic and anarchistic. Not beaurocratic at all. A few debates get weird, foolish structured formats, but most that we participate in are unstructured
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Both are knowledge-finding methods for *groups*, not individuals. Both are about convincing the audience, not about convincing the participants.
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