Debate vs Forensic - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Strife, discord.
An argument, or discussion, usually in an ordered or formal setting, often with more than two people, generally ending with a vote or other decision.
An informal and spirited but generally civil discussion of opposing views.
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, title= (uncountable) Discussion of opposing views.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (Frequently in French form débat) A type of literary composition, taking the form of a discussion or disputation, commonly found in the vernacular medieval poetry of many European countries, as well as in .
(ambitransitive) To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Proverbs xxv. 9
* Tatler
(obsolete) To fight.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
(obsolete) To engage in combat for; to strive for.
* Prescott
(lb) To consider (to oneself), to think over, to attempt to decide
Relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.
* {{quote-news
, date = 21 August 2012
, first = Ed
, last = Pilkington
, title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?
, newspaper = The Guardian
, url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true
, page =
, passage = In this account of events, the cards were stacked against Clemons from the beginning. His appeal lawyers have argued that he was physically beaten into making a confession, the jury was wrongfully selected and misdirected, and his conviction largely achieved on individual testimony with no supporting forensic evidence presented.}}
* 1996 , 8 June, Bill Clinton, ,
(dated) Relating to, or appropriate for courts of law.
* 1885 , , The Life of Abraham Lincoln , ,
(archaic) Relating to, or used in debate or argument.
* 1851 , (Edward Shepherd Creasy), (The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World) , ,
As a noun debate
is strife, discord.As a verb debate
is to participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena.As an adjective forensic is
relating to the use of science and technology in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law.debate
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Noun
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis:
Verb
(debat)- a wise council that did debate this business
- Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself.
- He presents that great soul debating upon the subject of life and death with his intimate friends.
- Well knew they both his person, sith of late / With him in bloudie armes they rashly did debate .
- Volunteers thronged to serve under his banner, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardour in Spain as on the plains of Palestine.
Derived terms
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Alternative forms
* forensick (obsolete)Adjective
(-)- Fire investigators and forensic chemists are combing through fire sites [the , interviewing witnesses, and following leads.
- It [the judiciary] had been the forum before which the highest forensic discussions had been held,
- Varus trusted implicitly to the interest which they affected to take in the forensic eloquence of their conquerors.