case/plan focus

[Brian R McGee <bmcgee@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>]

My apologies to Maxwell for misidentifying him.  Maxwell notes that he was
not offering a theoretical justification for the argument that "case becomes
the resolution after topicality is assessed."  Instead, he explains that
this notion is identified with the now-widespread community practice of
identifying case or plan, rather than the resolution, as the focus of the
debate.  Given my anecdotal impression that his reading of the CEDA
community on this question is correct, Maxwell and I have no disagreement.
 My sensitivity on this argument can be explained by my intuition that
resolutional focus got a bad rap.  There are a few of us still left in the
community who suspect that there are advantages to treating the
resolution, rather than the plan, as the proposition to be proven true. 
Ah, well, as long as no one unreflectively utilizes the _argumentum ad
populum_ on the question of plan versus resolutional focus, I have no
complaints.  I don't wish to start a thread years after the community made
its decision on this subject.

Brian McGee
Ohio State

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