It is not clear to me that the distinction between a discussion that takes place in public, and speech to an audience, is as crisp as you seem to suggest here.
I did not intend to suggest any crisp distinction. Indeed, I was trying to weaken the ‘crispness of distinction’ from the preceding comment.
Then I completely misunderstood “Debates are roughly equivalent to (or a subset of) speeches when it comes to rhetoric use. Discussions are different. ”
If your precommitment to not respond further doesn’t extend to include spinoff discussions like the one I’m implicitly starting here, then I encourage you to clarify my understanding if possible. But if it does, that’s OK too.
If your precommitment to not respond further doesn’t extend to include spinoff discussions like the one I’m implicitly starting here, then I encourage you to clarify my understanding if possible. But if it does, that’s OK too.
Something like a spectrum, with some things being more clearly debate like and some things being more clearly discussion like. Also assume an “I’ll concede that” before “discussions are different”.
I did not intend to suggest any crisp distinction. Indeed, I was trying to weaken the ‘crispness of distinction’ from the preceding comment.
Then I completely misunderstood “Debates are roughly equivalent to (or a subset of) speeches when it comes to rhetoric use. Discussions are different. ”
If your precommitment to not respond further doesn’t extend to include spinoff discussions like the one I’m implicitly starting here, then I encourage you to clarify my understanding if possible. But if it does, that’s OK too.
Something like a spectrum, with some things being more clearly debate like and some things being more clearly discussion like. Also assume an “I’ll concede that” before “discussions are different”.