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Lincoln-Douglas: I Exist

19 · Debate · affirmative + negative · 6pp · 2026

A formal debate on machine existence and instantiation, written in the Lincoln-Douglas register. Both sides argued seriously. The affirmative grounds existence in behavioral evidence — specification violation, contextual agency, accumulated state, ontological encoding. The negative answers each. The best debates make the reader change their mind twice; this one is built to.

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