Values & Philosophy
The right to be free from governmental restraints.
A round in which you don't compete; usually because there are an uneven number of teams/debaters.
What is a BYE round?
The debate term for the general technique used to keep track of what arguments are made (and when, and how they are responded to) during a debate.
What is flowing?
"The thing that you think is bad is actually good."
What is an Impact Turn?
A specific amount of time each debater is allowed to use in between speeches to write down notes or gather their thoughts.
What is prep time?
This philosophy posits that we should act to produce the greatest good for the greatest number of people
What is Utilitarianism?
This team gets the first and final say in a debate.
Establishing a hierarchy, weighing the arguments, and providing voting issues. Telling the judge you've won the round and explaining why, in short.
What is crystallization?
The affirmative’s responsibility to prove that the resolution is true. If the affirmative fails to prove the resolution, they ought to lose the debate.
What is burden of proof?
The index used to evaluate individual participants’ oratorical and rhetorical capacities.
What are speaker points?
An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
What is John Locke's Social Contract?
In the section of the debate, establish your case but don't forget to attack your opponents.
What is 1NC?
Poor arguments that rely upon an non-exhaustive body of evidence
What are hasty generalizations?
the negative’s responsibility to disprove the affirmative case.
What is burden of rejoinder?
To fail to respond to an argument. If one side drops an argument in an early speech, they cannot respond to it later in the debate.
What is dropping an argument?
This is the outline for an LD Debate.
What is 1AC-CX-1NC-CX-1AR-1NR-2AR
Attacking your opponent’s arguments going point by point in the order that they were presented.
What is Line by line (going down the flow)?
If you can think of an alternative not specified by the resolution, then it would be a great time to make use of this.
What is a counter-plan?
After the round, once a judge has disclosed, students will typically ask questions and for direct feedback from the judge.
What is post-rounding?
John Rawls said we should put this on to evaluate things without bias.
What is the Veil of Ignorance"?
This is the outline for a CX Debate.
What is 1AC-CX-1NC-CX-2AC-CX-2NC-CX-INR-1AR-2NR-2AR?
Arguments that evade the task of addressing the question and instead appeals to the feelings of the audience.
What is ad hominem?
An argument that the counterplan is not a real opportunity cost, that the plan and some or all of the counterplan can be completed at the same time.
What is permutation?
A judge’s educational philosophy; the model or view that guides his or her decision. In other words, what a judge does or does not want to hear in a round.
What is judging paradigm/preferences?