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Topic
#959

In The Pursuit of Truth and/or Knowledge, Do We Take Into Account Feelings?

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The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.

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After 1 vote and with 3 points ahead, the winner is...

Athias
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Number of rounds
3
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Three days
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30,000
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One week
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Description

It is quite confusing why people say 'you can't say that, it's offensive' nowadays especially in street debates between left and right wing supporters in many parts of the Western World. I am really interested in knowing why someone would think in such a way that we must care about human emotion is the result is the obtaining of knowledge or truth. Looking for someone willing to debate that we must take into account the feelings of others when in search of answer. I stand for the 'facts don't care about your feelings' side, the opponent will be against it.

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@Ramshutu
@Marc1123

@Marc1123: I'm pleased that you were gratified by your first debate. And that's the spirit: try harder. Every experience you have in your future debates will be a lesson which hopefully will make your arguments that much more sharp and refined. I've been arguing for years, and I'm still learning.

@Ramshutu: I believe @oromagi hit the nail on the head in the beginning: the proposition was wide open to attack. Despite my understanding the implication of the proposition, his conclusion was inconsistent with the premise. The structure of the propositional statement essentially can be only read as one which sought to resolve "meaning" not "content." Semantics played an important role. Had he structured the statement as such, "In the 'Analysis' or 'Examination' of Truth, Do We Take into Account Feelings?" he would've had a stronger case. By using "pursuit," we delve into purpose; it's the "why?" instead of the "what?"

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@Marc1123

Hi Marc: don’t be disheartened as this debate wasn’t by any means bad. I think part of it was that there was lots of scope in the resolution to go places you weren’t expecting (that’s actually often a good thing), and I think the hardest aspect of debate is how to try and maintain a debate when both sides disagree on the meaning of the resolution.

Well, it was a good first debate. Congratulations to the winner. I'll try harder next time.

Interesting

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@oromagi
@Athias

Yeah, kinda realise my mistake too little too late. My error in sentencing my phrases seems to have been misinterpreted. I do apologize dearly, but I still intent to continue the debate. Please give me some time while I source some information. And I apologize if I had caused any inconveniences.

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@oromagi

That's the reason I accepted the challenge. You're correct in that it's wide open to attack. Hopefully, this will be an informative debate.

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@Marc1123

Welcome, Marc. I think your proposition is wide open to attack- didn't Dr. Spock teach us that emotions are part of truth? A much more interesting debate would be to take one of those statements that most people find offensive and defend it as objectively rational.

It's a weird one, because feelings override truth. We even have the term "alternate facts" to spare the feelings of someone who is objectively wrong. So well it should not be the case, if we don't consider feelings the search for truth gets set back by book burnings and the like.

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@Marc1123

With one exception, I agree.