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I’m writing a response to Scott’s recent essay about why attempts to solve debates won’t work — provocatively titled

Your Attempt To Solve Debate Will Not Work

— and I’d very much benefit from your thoughts on it.

If you haven’t read it already, you’ll probably want to go ahead and do so — it’s just a seven-minute read. But in a nutshell, here’s what I see Scott as saying:

People often show Scott t…