Appeal: direct answer
From Debate MELTDOWN: Worst Opponent Yet: Austin Peterson Libertarian Debate Vs Jay Dyer.
- #7721:13:58upheld Austin Peterson epainos: direct answer (+1)
The council upheld the call: Austin Peterson earned 1 point.
“There is a concept to find what what is true called triangulation. And what you do is ... You go out and you find information. There's an information gathering…”
Diogenes: Amid the abuse he does finally name a method for arriving at truth — evidence-gathering and triangulation rather than revelation — which is at least an attempt at the answer demanded.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: S1 has held throughout that he arrives at beliefs through evidence and reasoning rather than revealed truth, and this is a direct, consistent articulation of that standing epistemic method. Asked how he determines what is true (as distinct from revelation), Austin names an actual method — triangulation via information-gathering rather than starting from a conclusion — which is a genuine, if contestable, attempt to answer the epistemological question actually posed, not a dodge or empty assertion.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "direct answer". Pressed on how his method determines what is true, Austin actually attempts to answer by describing a process ("triangulation": gathering information from multiple sources) rather than deflecting, even though the explanation is cut short by crosstalk and insults from both sides.
- Plato uphold: On the record: S1 has held throughout that he arrives at conclusions via evidence and reasoned literature rather than revelation; this is a direct continuation and elaboration of that stated epistemic position. Jim Bob had pressed Austin on what method he uses to determine truths like the existence of rights; here Austin names and begins to explain a specific method ("triangulation," "you go out and find information"), which is a genuine attempt to answer the epistemological question actually posed, even amid the surrounding chaos.
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