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UIL Capital Conference CX Debate: Advanced Argumentation
Anthony Yim Samin Agha
Session Overview
Part 1 – When to run a Kritik
Part 2 – Structure
Part 3 – Categories
Part 4 – Sample K debate walkthrough
When should I try to be “cool?”
Must meet 4 conditions:
1. There should be an important flaw in the topic or the opposing teams position
2. Judge should be receptive
3. The team introducing the K should have both the knowledge and research base to launch the attack
4. The attack should be understandable both in intent and structure
Structure
Link Generic
Advantage Specific
Plan Specific
Impact Value to Life
Utilitarianism
Root Cause
Alternative Alt Text?
Alt Framework?
Role of the Ballot
Category 1 – Language
Attacks the opponents for using words in a harmful or risk creating way
Examples: Nuclear War Reps Racist Language Sexist Language Etc.
Category 2 - Thinking
Challenge the way participants construct and/or systemize their reasoning. Sometimes challenge the form of debate
Examples: Queer Theory
Black Aesthetic
Etc.
Category 3 - Value
Include a large variety of methods to identify and attack ethical or moral beliefs found behind what teams do and say
Examples: Statism
Nietzsche
Capitalism
Etc.
Kritik Buzz Words Demystified
Metaphysics- attempts to clarify the fundamental notions by which people understand the world, e.g. existence, objects and their properties, space and time, cause and effect, and possibility. 2 Branches A. Ontology – the investigation into the basic
categories of being and they relate to each other B. Cosmology – the study of the totality of all
phenomena within the universe (not common)
Epistemology- analyzes the nature of knowledge and how it relates to connected notions such as truth, belief, and justification
Ressentiment – French word for resentment.
Capitalism Kritik
Handout
How to Answer the K
1. Case Outweighs: essentially, the solvency deficit outweighs the net benefit, the neg’s inability to solve the case is a reason they should lose, this includes the framework debate.
2. Link Turn: an argument that the plan solves for the link (non-uniqueness isn’t required as there is no uniqueness for the original link) or a Permutations
3. Impact Turn: an argument that the foundation of the Kritik is incorrect and that the impacts it claims are actually good
Answering the K Cont.
4. Alternative – DA to what a world of the alt looks like, solvency of alt
5. Theory: an argument that addresses the underlying theoretical implications of the Kritik and how it affects debate
a. Kritiks are illegitimate
b. b. The alternative is…unpredictable, vague, fluid, not written, plan-inclusive, inconsistent with the rest of their arguments, etc…
Extending the Kritik in the
Neg Block