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-Interpretation. Affirmatives must defend countries in general and must not defend that only a single country or combination of countries prohibit the production of nuclear power. |
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-====Grammar – ‘countries’ in the resolution is a generic bare plural, just like ‘just government’==== |
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-I believe that debaters shouldn’t specify a government on the living wage topic. The standard argument for this is simple: “just governments” is a plural noun phrase, so it refers to more than one just government. Most debaters will stop there. But there is much more to say. (Some seem |
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-allows one to affirm by specifying a few governments. |
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-====Common usage – the generic interpretation is the only one consistent with common usage.==== |
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-To my ear, the generic reading is correct. I think the best |
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-questions and objections in the comments to be addressed in a later article.) |
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-2. Predictability |
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-Voters |