Arguer claims that a sort of chain reaction, ending in a consequence, will take place, but there is really not enough evidence for that assumption.
What is SLIPPERY SLOPE?
100
The part of the debate round where a debater is questioned about the speech he/she just presented.
What is CROSS-EXAMINATION?
200
The problems with the status quo; why change is needed. The part of the affirmative case that explains the bad things that will happen if the plan is accepted.
What are HARMS?
200
Break into one of these if you want to talk informally and free of procedures.
What is UNMODERATED CAUCUS?
200
appeal to emotion
What is PATHOS?
200
"Look, there's not conclusive evidence on the issue at hand, so you should accept my conclusion on hte issue. (However, just because you haven't found the info doesn't mean it doesn't exist.)
What is APPEAL TO IGNORANCE?
200
The responsibility of proving an argument is terue. In L-D, the aff carries this.
What is BURDEN OF PROOF?
300
An illustration in which the characteristics to something are used to explain something less familiar.
What is an ANALOGY?
300
A suggestion put to the organized body for a second and a vote.
What are MOTIONS?
300
appeal to logic
What is LOGOS?
300
"Against the person" fallacy in which attention is focused on the messenger as opposed to the message.
What is AD HOMINEM?
300
The basis for a claim.
What is the PREMISE?
400
The effectiveness of the affirmative plan.
What is SOLVENCY?
400
The document we all work toward that is the solution to the agenda item.
What is the Resolution?
400
Explanation of key words within the resolution and that are essential to understand the argument.
What are DEFINITIONS?
400
One way to make our own arguments stronger is to anticipate and respond in advance to an argument an opponent might raise.
What is STRAW MAN?
400
An argument/assertion/point
What is CONTENTION?
500
The part of the aff case that explains what is going on in the world today.
What is INHERENCY?
500
The document we bring to the debate that demonstrates where our country stands on the issue.
What is a POSITION PAPER?
500
What we call the resolution while we are in the process of making it.
What is WORKING PAPERS?
500
Partway through an argument, the arguer goes off on a tangent, raising a side issue that distracts the audience from what's really at stake.