Subject: [lojban] Re: nature of debate (was: RE: Re: Why we should cancel the vote or all vote NO (was RE: Official Statement- LLG Board appr

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 00:12:13 -0500 (EST)

And Rosta scripsit:

> But more importantly, debates
> that drag on and on don't drag on because new arguments and 
> counterarguments keep on getting raised. They drag on partly because
> the nature of email means we forget what has been said, but -- and
> this is the key point -- mainly because people restate the same
> arguments over and over again.

That is the key insight on which IBIS, the discourse model on which the
Elephant is based, is based.

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