Word: scottishly
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...vague generality under fire, take the typical example, "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If these be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea of what Hume really said, or in fact what...
...relatively unstructured Scottish debate format emphasizes the strength of rhetoric and style instead of the structure of the arguments. It is characterized by interruptions and more direct confrontations than the American format...
American teams, unfamiliar with the Scottish style, traditionally have not done well in this event. Friedman and Kennedy were the first team ever to win without prior experience in Scottish style debate, according to their coach Kevin D. Sneader...
Park said the coaches "helped us Europeanize our style" and let go of the American mentality. The two teams from Harvard were among the least experienced teams with the Scottish format, according to Sneader...
Breen said competing in the Scottish style ofdebate was "quite a transition" and that the teamhad to make adjustments in both structure andstyle...