# Replying to "The Prerequisites of Debate"\[Dface\]

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**Post date:** [September 25, 2026, 7:10am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/replying-to-the-prerequisites-of-debate-dface/2243/8 "2026-09-25T07:10:04Z")

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> [@The Prerequisites of Debate](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/the-prerequisites-of-debate/2167/1):
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> Simplifying, you should either have a debate moderator or a debate participant who is capable of being a debate moderator.

The quote says “Simplifying”. That’s like making an idea simpler to understand. I remember @anonymous105 talk simplifying ideas on [Comments on The Boyfriend's Introduction to Feminism](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/comments-on-the-boyfriends-introduction-to-feminism/2108) . I think reading that will help with knowing what the sentence is doing. Here’s what anon said:

> [@Comments on The Boyfriend's Introduction to Feminism](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/comments-on-the-boyfriends-introduction-to-feminism/2108/582):
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> “Basically” means you are simplifying a concept a bit. Or generalizing it. You’re reducing an idea down to its “basic” version.
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> In the context of my usage above, “basically” is also kind of like a hedging word. It is not necessarily saying there are things left out. But there _might_ be, because I’m keeping things simple. Some nuanced complexity might be lost.
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> It is saying something like “this may not be entirely precisely technically 100% correct in all possible contexts, but for most purposes in this conversation it is close enough that we can treat it as correct.”

The first sentence:

> [@Comments on The Boyfriend's Introduction to Feminism](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/comments-on-the-boyfriends-introduction-to-feminism/2108/582):
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> “Basically” means you are simplifying a concept a bit.

I think ET is simplifying something in the article quote. He’s simplifying the stuff about how someone in the debate should know what they’re doing. Like, they should have an idea of that. Is the quote at the top of this reply simplifying a concept? I think kind of yeah cuz instead of talking in terms of someone knowing how a succseful debate looks like, we’re talking about a more familiar concept. That’s about a debate moderator. I think a debate moderator would know what a successful debate looks like. That’s if they’re objective i think.

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