Kinds of rules
Staging
violations
what kind of resolution
categories of speech and properties of resolution
100

The norm or what is typical

Expectation

100

Please put in order of the steps in staging

Observations

resolution analysis

define terms

state criteria

attention getting device

read resolution


1. attention getting device

2. read resolution

3.resolution analysis

4.define terms

5. state criteria

6. observations

100

simply true by definitions

Tautology

100

how the world is 

fact

100

concerns praise and blame in a present moment that calls for recognition of a party deserving of credit or censure

Epideictic

200

Arbitrary but official rules

Fiat

200

define the term What, how, how much, how certain

state criteria 

200

not true by definition, but is so lacking in controversy that there is no point in debating it; no one would object to it

truism

200

how the world is, and a judgment about it

value

200

was for the assembly (policy-making portion of government).

Deliberative

300

Rules that must be followed on irrationality

Necessity

300

define what type of resolution is being debated and offers justification for that claim. 

           - fact, value, and policy, quasi-policy

Resolution Analysis

300

the affirmative does something unreasonable in debate

Abuse

300

how the world is, offer a judgment about it, and tell us what to do about it

policy

300
  • for the courtroom and focused on questions of past fact

Forensic

400

what is 

Trust in the process, concerned with fairness, assigning burgers, structuring the interaction, “refereeing”


pragma dialectis

400

define 

  • Structural expectation in academic debate

  • Many debates are either won or lost in this step

  • If the affirmative denies their right to define, it is passed to the negative, where the negative can define it to benefit their case

Define Terms

400

please state which is truism or tautology 

1.If something is true, then it is true.

2.All bachelors are unmarried men.”

3.Either it will rain tomorrow, or it won’t.

4.Honesty is the best policy.

5. Life is full of ups and downs.

6.Hard work often leads to success.

1.tautology

2.tautology

3.tautology

4.truism

5.truism

6.truism

400

define “A Proposition of Policy is simply a Proposition of Value extended into the future.” 

Policies do NOT exist without Values.

400

please tell me which goes to which

match these  

1.Debate Textbooks 

 2.Proposition of Fact  

  3.Proposition of Value
4. Proposition of Policy

to these

1.Forensic  

2.Deliberative 

3.Aristotle

4.Epideictic 

1.1 and 4

2. 2 and 1

3. 4 and 2

4. 3 and 4

500

please answer which is fiat, expectation and necessity Hint: one answer is a combnation of 2 

1.Prima facia

2. constructive vs. rebuttals

3. affirmative speaks first and last

1. necessity

2.fiat and expectation

3.fiat

500

define 

  • Background facts

  • Defensive arguments

Negatives should pay close attention to them


Observations

500

please state tautology or truism

1.Money can’t buy happiness.

2.A triangle has three sides.

3.Whatever will be, will be

4.Time waits for no one.

5.Either the team will win, or they won’t.

1.truism

2.tautology

3.tautology

4.truism

5.tautology

500

what two type of argument styles are these 

Arguments styles 

Win/Lose - Competing 

Win/Win - Collaborating - not possible in a realistic conflict

Lose/Lose - Avoiding 

Lose/Win - Accommodating 

½ Win ½ Lose - Compromising 

Realistic and Non-Realistic Conflict

500

which is Propositions of Fact, Propositions of Value, Propositions of Policy and Quasi-Policy

1.

A policy resolution specifies an action that should allegedly be taken

Values imply Policies

2.The central feature of a proposition of fact is that it only asserts the way the world “is” and not how the world “ought to be”.

3.

propositions are propositions that express a value judgement about a policy.


4.

Value resolutions indicate that a state of affairs is good/bad or right/wrong.

  • Offer judgments

1.Propositions of Policy 

2. propostions of fact

3. quasi-policy

4. propositions of value