Debate Evergreen: A Chronicle of the 9th China Top Universities Debate Invitational

Author: Zhang Deming
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: The medium of debate is the debate topic, which either focuses on contemporary hot issues or poses ultimate questions about universal human principles. It divides truth itself into two and pushes it to the limits of reason. From opposing standpoints, debaters attempt to persuade each other or prove their own points, meaning that in this sense, debate is not about debating truth. However, debate ultimately defends a part of truth, and there is a possibility of deducing truth from the local using experiential perception and formal logic. It can also be said that it is striving toward truth itself, moving forward in thought, step by step forcing truth. Although it is fundamentally impossible, due to this relationship, debate can be considered a debate about truth. For reason, the former is the fact itself; for debaters, the latter is a spiritual creed!...