Regarding this issue, language doesn't just form the debate, language is the debate, and there has been a severe reluctance to call our actions what they actually are, to our national detriment.
In stark form, the debate was: Does language shape what we perceive, a position associated with the late Benjamin Lee Whorf, or are our perceptions pure sensory impressions, immune to the arbitrary ways that language carves up the world?
In its simplest form, the debate between traditional and behavioral finance comes down to the difference between two sets of investment recommendations: if you believe the efficient market hypothesis, don't try to beat the market by picking individual stocks, just invest in index funds.
Another current issue may also take a new form: the debate about the social advantages or disadvantages of "conformity". The stereotype of the conforming junior executive, more interested in being well liked than in working, should become far less significant in a highly depersonalized, highly programed, and more machine-like middle-management world.
This body would decide the number, date and media form of the debates, which would not be confined to television.
This is not a new issue – in various forms the debate has been going for a while with the size-zero model and so on.
As a Democrat, she has a limited ability to influence legislation, but she has taken a lead in forming the debate on a number of issues of substance.
What is perhaps the most interesting form of the debate occurs when we take the relevant subject to be truths about the external world, the world beyond our own minds.
We had actually already corrected it in this form in the debate in committee.
Some supporters of Mr. Bush have also formed a group called Shape the Debate and run ads attacking Vice President Al Gore.
