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Stasis Theory Notes ●A framework to identify the nature of disagreements (where people can agree and disagree) ●Stasis=status ●“Status questions were posed in sequence bc each depended on answers from preceding ones” ●Like a ladder ○Complete one step before you can move to the next ●Opposing forces come together before they diverge ●Place where you and your opponent can agree to disagree ●Establishing points of stasis ○Where do we agree? ○Where do we disagree? ○Drowns out the rhetorical noise that can drown it out ●Questions ofFACT ○Does it exist? ○Did it happen? ○Where did the information come from? ■Is it reliable? ●Questions ofDEFINITION ○If it exists, what IS it? ○What kind of thing is it? ○What kind of event is it? ○How do people define the topic?
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Unformatted text preview:○ What is the nature of the thing? ○ Do people define a key concept in the same way? ● Questions of QUALITY/VALUE ○ Is it just? ○Is it right? ○ Is it honorable? ○ Is it good or bad? ○ How do we evaluate the issue? ○ What values motivate the stakeholders to evaluate the issue in a certain way? ○ What differing values do individuals, groups, and/or society place on the topic?● Questions of JURISDICTION/POLICY ○ What actions should be taken? ○ What could be changed to make things better? ○ How will these actions cause changes? ●Dissoi Logoi ○ Countervailing arguments○ "Devil's advocate" ○ Find points of oppositions as well as points of agreement