Appeal: concession
From Jay Dyer vs 2 Freemason Christians.
- #121255:10upheld Chase Geyser epainos: concession (+1)
The council upheld the call: Chase Geyser earned 1 point.
“I think I might change my position. I'm not a communist by any means, I hate communism. But I think you could be a Christian and a communist…”
Diogenes: He announces a revision of his own answer mid-argument and gives his reason, rather than quietly holding a position he no longer thinks defensible — though the revision costs him, since he grants that the philosophies are "inherently incompatible" while the person holds both, which is the very distinction Jay's resolution turns on.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: This is a mid-debate self-correction consistent with S3's pattern elsewhere in this debate of candidly conceding points under pressure rather than a departure from an established position. Chase explicitly flags a revision of his own prior answer ("I think I might change my position") and gives his reasoning, openly correcting course rather than quietly holding an untenable position — a genuine concession/self-correction.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "concession". Geyser explicitly flags and owns a shift in his own position ("I think I might change my position") rather than silently reversing himself, revising his earlier answer that being a Christian and a Marxist is incompatible after further reflection on human inconsistency — an openly acknowledged change rather than an unadmitted self-contradiction.
- Plato uphold: On the record: S3 initially answered no to whether a Christian could also be a Marxist; here he explicitly revises that answer ("I think I might change my position") after reflecting further, and gives his reasoning for the change rather than silently abandoning his stated view. This is an explicit, self-announced revision of a position with reasoning given, a clean instance of genuine intellectual concession rather than evasion, even though the revised answer complicates his overall case.
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