Literary notes about Debate (AI summary)
The term “debate” in literature serves as a versatile tool, often signifying both external exchanges and internal deliberations. It appears in accounts of public and political contention where ideas and ideologies wrestle for supremacy, as seen when authors dramatize legislative disputes or public assemblies ([1], [2], [3]). At the same time, writers use debate to evoke introspection, illustrative of a character’s internal conflict or moral questioning ([4], [5], [6]). Even in mythic and poetic texts, debate imbues narratives with a sense of cosmic balance and the clashing of divine wills ([7], [8]). This multifaceted use of the word enriches the narrative, highlighting the essential human endeavor to resolve differences through dialogue and reason ([9]).
- In 1927 the Communists began a debate in Moscow as to whether they had used the Nationalists enough or not.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger - This motion at once opened the debate on the admission of women delegates.
— from History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I - His success as an advocate at the bar followed him to the Assembly, and in every debate he proved a formidable antagonist.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - 'Now,' was his debate with himself 'shall I foller you on, or shall I let you loose for this once, and go a fishing?'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - Yes.' The boy, with a return of that former reluctance or struggle or whatever it was, seemed to debate with himself.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens - At last evening came, and with it hunger and a debate with himself as to how he should spend the night.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser - To whom the chief: "In thy capacious mind Since daring zeal with cool debate is join'd, Attend a deed already ripe in fate: Attest, O Jove!
— from The Odyssey by Homer - The gods debate concerning the fate of Hector; at length Minerva descends to the aid of Achilles.
— from The Iliad by Homer - The very fact that we debate this question shows that our KNOWLEDGE is incomplete at present and subject to addition.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James
