[debate] debate guidelines -- first batch

[Rob Enderle]

As far as I'm concerned you haven't, I just weigh in when I have time
and find things interesting, and there has been little activity this
week (and I've had less time anyway).    I also tend to ignore
instructions, something I learned when I because a fellow a few years
ago.  

 

Would love to debate some of the stuff I write about like whether Apple
did change the world, whether the Kindle does mean the beginning of the
end of paper, or successful strategies to get my wife to let me buy a
Frisker Karma.   Granted on this last you'd likely have to know my wife,
so a variant might be whether these "green cars" are truly worth it.  

 

Rob Enderle

Enderle Group

 

Work:  408 272-8560

Cell:     408 832-6326

FAX:    408 904-5274

 

www.enderlegroup.com

 

From: debate-bounces at whitestar.linuxbox.org
[mailto:debate-bounces at whitestar.linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of Alan Light
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 3:20 PM
To: debate at whitestar.linuxbox.org
Subject: Re: [debate] debate guidelines -- first batch

 

Well, it has been kind of quiet since the suggested guidelines were
published.

 

I feel like I have been largely responsible for these suggested
guidelines, as I know I can get off-focus and a bit pedantic at times.
I also tend to forget that not everyone is a native English speaker -
though in fairness, everyone posting here is writing well enough that it
is not obvious.

 

I should note that the way my brain works and processes information is
based more on a coherentist model than foundationalist.  I know most of
y'all haven't studied epistemology (the study of how we know what we
know), so here's a link:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherentism

 

This is not exactly the norm, and while it does have some advantages,
the chief disadvantage is that it can seem quite perplexing to someone
who thinks in a more linear manner.

 

So, even when I stay in focus it often seems out of focus to others.

 

This is also one reason why I prefer informal debates to formal ones -
formal debates seem far too restrictive to me.  They often preclude the
introduction of points and data that seem important to me.

 

That said, I will try to keep my mind from wandering so much in future
debates.  I hope I haven't killed this group.

 

 

 

Alan Light

 

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