Logical Fallacies
Using majority sentiment as a basis of a claim
What is bandwagon fallacy?
Prime Minister
first speaker of Aff
automatically wins if impacts are equal
What is negation
Most common criteria
What is net benefits
What matef stands for
mandate
agency
timing
enforcement
funding
Ad hominem
What is attacking the advocate of an argument instead of the argument itself?
interjection in last speech calling out new information
What is P.O.O
real world consequences of a idea in debate
impacts
comparison introduced in last speech
what is world to world
Generic label for enforcement and agency
Defense against argument by pointing out hypocrisy
What is Tu Quoque?
Mutually exclusive opp case providing alternative
what is a CP?
Difference between utilitarianism and net benefits
What is nothing
Term for how things are right now
What is Status Quo
when funding is not large enough to be considered in impacts
What is negligible
events following each other doesn't imply causality
What is Post hoc ergo proctor hoc
Constructive speeches
opening speeches of a formal debate, in which the participants establish the major arguments that will be subject to analysis, refutation, and revision, in the debate's subsequent stages.
A plan's ability to resolve issues
What is Solvency
lay judge
what are judges that haven't been formally trained in debate
Topicality
What is the Affirmative Stock Issue that requires that the Case actually affirm the resolution and that the Plan solve a problem suggested by the Resolution
The difference between Red Herring and Strawman fallacy
What is misrepresenting a case vs. distracting with an irrelevant argument?
The arguments in a formal debate that are used to decide the ultimate outcome of the debate.
What are voter issues
Tabula Rasa
What is a style of judging in which the judge acts as if he knows nothing
done at the end of every tournament
What is checking out with coach dean and kistler
citizens obey law in exchange for protection and services from govt.
What is social contract