Kritiks
The part of the Kritik where the negative advocates for something different than the affirmative plan
What is the alternative
What is an interpretation?
A test of competition, or, when the affirmative asks if it is possible to do both the aff plan and the negative advocacy at the same time
What is a permutation
What is uniqueness?
When the 2nc and the 1nr take two different sets of arguments in their speech
What is "splitting the block"
The study of knowledge / how we come to know what we know
What is epistemology?
A topicality standard / reason to prefer that says the affirmative's interpretation makes the topic too big
Latin for "Let it be so" the power we grant teams to imagine what would happen if the plan / counterplan were implemented.
What is Fiat?
"You should prefer my impact because it happens BEFORE the affirmative's impact" is an example of what kind of impact calculus
What is timeframe?
A pre-made script of arguments that you write before the debate round, made up of analytics, evidence, and extensions, so you have stock answers ready for common arguments in the debate
What is a block or frontline?
The study of Being
What is ontology?
An affirmative argument that says that the aff does not violate the other team's interpretation
When the negative gets to kick an advocacy whenever they want
What is "conditional"
The part of the disad between the link and the impact. The chain that connects the different parts of the DA.
What is an internal link
The 200 mile zone off of the coasts over which sovereign states have special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources
What is the Exclusive Economic Zone
The belief that human beings are separate from and superior to non-human entitities
What is Anthropocentrism?
A topicality argument that says part of the plan is topical but another part of the plan is not topical
What is extra topicality
The reason why it is preferable to do the counterplan alone, rather than The counterplan plus the affirmative. Or, the thing the CP avoids that the affirmative does.
What is a net benefit
When an affirmative has only read offense against a disadvantage, and has not provided the negative with an easy defensive argument to concede that would allow the negative to kick the disad.
What is a straight turn
Inductive Reasoning
A topicality argument that says that the affirmative's plantext itself must be topical, and that the affirmative cannot use solvency to prove that a non-resolutional action is topical because it results in a topical action somewhere down the line
What is FX T or "Effects Topicality
When the negative is only allowed to kick an advocacy if the affirmative has straight turned it
What is dispositional?
The two different kinds of uniqueness arguments in a debate
What is link uniqueness and issue uniqueness?
An Italian phrase that means "effortless cool"
What is Sprezzatura?