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: Robin Lee Powell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:06:11 -0800

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:12:13AM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> 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.

BTW, your like to IBIS from the Elephant wiki page is, if not broken, at
least very strange.

-Robin

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