Argumentation
An argument which is a reason to vote for you
What is offense?
The length of time between the present and when the impact will occur.
What is timeframe?
The size of the topic, in number of topical affirmatives, under an interpretation.
What is limits?
The reason the kritik applies to the aff
What's the link?
A helpful acronym to answer counterplans in your 1ar
What is SPLOT?
An argument which mitigates the impact of your opponents offense
What is defense?
The likelihood that an impact will occur (determined by multiplying the likelihood of each of its links).
What is probability?
Arguments that one or more sides in a debate has at its disposal under an interpretation--a core topic controversy.
What is ground?
The proposed new way of looking at the issue that avoids the criticisms of the affirmative speech act
What is an alternative?
The counterplan is different from or smaller than the affirmative plan, and there exists a reason it is more desirable than a combination of the affirmative plan and the counterplan (or part of the counterplan).
What is competitive?
The bracketing out of the likelihood of implementation or part of the process of implementation to focus on the merits of an advocacy
What is fiat?
The size of the impact in its entirety, not taking risk into account. Severity or scope.
What is magnitude?
A list of affirmatives that are topical under your opponent's interp, but shouldn't be.
What is an offensive case list?
The logical and inevitable conclusion of internalizing the assumptions the K criticizes
What is the impact?
The frequency at which a counterplan is mutually exclusive
What is rarely?
I must nearly always be read in conjunction with an impact turn argument
What is impact defense?
An impact that can happen more or less, to a degree (e.g. pollution kills 200,000 a year, post-plan that number grows to 320,000). It does not have uniqueness or a brink.
What is a linear or systemic impact?
A list of affirmatives that are topical under your interp, proving you aren't overlimiting.
What is a defensive case list?
The part of the K that makes it different than other arguments in debate
What is framework?
I'm the most frequent net benefit to a courts counterplan
What is the politics disad?
I'm a uniqueness argument that can be conceded to kick out of a link turn
What is "uniqueness overwhelms the link?"
The number of "metrics" you should use to compare your impact to your opponents in the final rebuttal (not including "turns case")
What is one?
The number of words you should counter-define in the 2ac.
What is "every word that was defined in the 1nc?"
The reason a K doesn't need uniqueness
What is
1) the alt provides it?
or
2) it's generally a systemic/linear impact?
The counterplan does not include all of the words in the aff plan
What is textual competitiveness?