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maybe i use 'argument' and 'debate' as technical notions where they don't have the connotations that people here seem to take them to have.

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You may have, indeed, just hit on a nugget of wisdom, Alexandra! You're speaking one language and most of us are speaking another! Something for all of us to think about.