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RE: RE:new arguments


If time does not recognize your "new" argument as an extension, then it 
probably has something to do with your rebuttal, not his interpretive 
skills.  You can't expect judges to vote on what they perceive as coming 
from thin air in the last five minutes.  If your message is so important to 
the decision, get it out in the 1AC, 2AC and 1AR, then there will never be a 
question!!
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From: ceda-l%cornell.edu
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE:new arguments
Date: Thu, Sep 29, 1994 3:47PM


Tim Mahoney says that judges should disregard any arguments that are new
in the 2AR.  My question is: How does the judge know when an argument is
new?  Often a judge may disregard an argument they think is new but is, in
fact been extended throughout the round.  A true tabula rasa judge would
not, I think, disregard any arguments.

sean purdy
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