The Dynamics of Debate: A Guide to Handling Facts and Strategic Responses
- laurabascou
- Jul 24, 2024
- 8 min read
When we select our arguments, we must also choose the facts that we will use to support them. Most of the time, this work will be more about documentation than argumentation. The main challenge will be to find information strong enough to support our arguments and reliable enough not to be questioned. For this, we will often need to consider all sources: journalistic, scientific, statistical, historical, legal, artistic...
The difficulties begin, however, when we consider argumentation from a dynamic perspective. Very often, as we have seen, other speakers are in front of us, defending positions opposite to ours. Facts then become an object of struggle and confrontation. Most of the time, in this case, divergent reasoning will actually be supported by different facts. The question will not only be which facts are true—they may all be true at the same time, but which ones seem most relevant to us.
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