Re: Regarding disclosure

[asnider@moose.uvm.edu (Alfred C. Snider)]

>In other words, the whole debate essentially seems to "happen" prior
>to the debate itself.

I do not see this happen very often, but it does seem to me that the
give-and-take of the debate round is part of the process. Complete prior
disclosure seems to make some of the debate superfluous.

We already truncate our thought based on prior knowledge of concepts
("counterplan," for example) and the use of supersymbols (complex ideas
which are embodied in simple phrases because the participants already know
what it means) a bit much, and assuming away the initial presentation might
be a bad idea.

As a competitor I would probably not practice disclosure. As an educator I
encourage it. This may very well indicate a tension in my competing views
of debate (competition and education) which I so often try to permute.


Alfred C. Snider AKA Tuna
Edwin W. Lawrence Professor of Forensics, University of Vermont
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