The phrase "authentic debate" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a discussion or argument that is genuine, sincere, and involves real engagement with differing viewpoints.
Example: "The conference aimed to foster an authentic debate on climate change policies, encouraging participants to share their true opinions."
Alternatives: "genuine discussion" or "real discourse".
Without the cross-pollination of authentic debate and the sharing of divergent views, the impoverishment of the body politic could be the greatest threat to our country as we know it.
It is an appraisal of the vitality of the American political system, which we in Europe too often presume to be banal, unidimensional, lacking in authentic debate and substantive stakes (whereas I discovered -- and attempted to describe -- a far more intricate, lively, exciting ideological battleground).
The reductionist tactics, which Jayarāśi shared with the Mādhyamika Buddhists, was traditionally classified by Brahmanic philosophers, e.g. the Naiyāyikas, as an eristical dispute or refutation-only debate (vitaṇḍā) and considered as a non-genuine argument, because the goal of an authentic debate was to strive for truth, understood of course in positive terms.
If our democracy has degenerated to a win-lose power game, then we have broken with the Founding Fathers in their belief that laws should be forged through authentic debate, deliberation, negotiation, and compromise among representatives of different -- and often competing -- constituencies.
After months of Republican presidential candidates embarrassing themselves and the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt with religious zealotry dominating the primary season, the relentless assault on a woman's health care choices can be expected to continue as it distracts American voters from an authentic debate on other important issues that dominate American life today.
(For an excellent overview of the authentic performance debate, see S. Davies 2001, 201 53.
We are not afraid of authentic public debate about issues that will determine our future in this country: whether to create a biometric database unlike any other in the world, whether to enact land reform legislation, whether to slash budget allocations for welfare and education.
One of the most authentic and principled debates in the anti-poverty sector today is about the practical and ethical limits to selling goods and services to the poor.
How each teacher delivers these opportunities and then assesses them in units in and of itself is part of a much larger and more complex debate around authentic assessment.
For instance, while the debate over authentic performance is closely related to the question of the relative value of different performances, the debate over the fundamental ontological category of musical works seems more neutral with respect to that same question.
Another great way to get students moving is to assign authentic assessments, such as debates, and role play.
