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Topicality

Topicality. Gateway to the Future. Lecture Overview. Purpose of a Topic Topicality in Practice Topicality on the Space Topic. Purpose of the topic. Fair Starting point for the debate Aff Ground Neg Ground. Topicality in Practice. Topicality as a Tactic Topicality as a Strategy.

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Topicality

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  1. Topicality Gateway to the Future

  2. Lecture Overview • Purpose of a Topic • Topicality in Practice • Topicality on the Space Topic

  3. Purpose of the topic • Fair Starting point for the debate • AffGround • Neg Ground

  4. Topicality in Practice • Topicality as a Tactic • Topicality as a Strategy

  5. Topicality as a Tactic • Topicality as a Tactic (Time-tradeoff) • Disadvantages • Annoys Certain Judges • Trades off with other better arguments • Advantages • Uses Aff Time • Possible 2NR option

  6. Topicality as a Strategy • Advantages • Directs aff towards your negstrats • Clear research • Disadvantages • Telegraph your strategy

  7. Structural Overview • Interpretation • Violation • Reasons to Prefer • Voting Issues

  8. Interpretation • Vision of the Topic • What should debate look like on this topic? • Examples of Cases that meet your interp. • Evidence Based • Contextual • Non-Arbitrary • Not Over-limited

  9. Violation • Specifically crafted (for the aff) • Based in your evidence • Don’t exclude Mainstream affs • Not Over broad

  10. Reasons to Prefer • Focus of Topicality Debate • Predictable (w/in the Lit) • Preparation • Education (Topic Specific) • External Benefit of Debate • Ground (Generic and Case Specific) • Preserves competitive equity

  11. Voting Issues • Why is Topicality a Voting Issue? • Jurisdiction • Cart before the Horse • Procedural Burden • Competitive Enterprise of Debate

  12. Competing Interpretations • Most Objective? • Fairness • Deters Small Affs • Education • Purpose of Debate • Evolution of Argument (Truth)

  13. Extra T and FX T • Extra T • Whole Plan has to be Topical • FX T • What does it mean to be Topical by effects? • Vacuum Test

  14. A2 Topicality • We meet • Counter-Interpretation • Reasons to Prefer • Reasonability

  15. We Meet • Purpose of a we meet? • Defense to their offense • IE, the Aff is predictable • Not Just “we meet their interp”

  16. Counter-Interpretation • Mirrors Interp requirements • Vision of the Topic • What should debate look like on this topic? • Examples of Cases that meet your interp. (not just yours) • Evidence Based • Contextual • Non-Arbitrary • Not Under-limited

  17. Reasons to Prefer • AffFlex • Predictable Literature

  18. Reasonability • More accurately “Competing InterpsBad” • Good is Good Enough

  19. Space Topic Topicality • Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its exploration and/or development of space beyond the Earth’s mesosphere. • Key phrases • “exploration of space” • “development of space” • “beyond the Earth’s mesosphere”

  20. Exploration of Space • More limited than development • “Exploration” refers to space activities toward the Moon, Mars, or NEOs --- this excludes the outer Solar System and beyond and satellites in Earth’s orbit

  21. Development of Space • Aff Inclusive definitions • SBSP • Re-usable Launch Vehicles • Communication Satellites • Neg Limits • Not Military Affs (Peaceful)

  22. Beyond the Earth’s Mesosphere • “Beyond” means outside the limits of • Collins 9 (Collins English Dictionary Unabridged, “beyond”, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/beyond) • -- prep • 1. at or to a point on the other side of; at or to the further side of: beyond those hills there is a river • 2. outside the limits or scope of: beyond this country's jurisdiction • Mesosphere is 50 miles out • WC 11 (Weather Channel – Weather Glossary, “M”, http://www.weather.com/glossary/m.html) • MESOSPHERE • The layer of the atmosphere located between the stratosphere and the ionosphere, wheretemperatures drop rapidly with increasing height. It extends between 31 and 50 miles (17 to 80 kilometers) above the earth's surface.

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