You give no reasons".Being able to follow and discuss such back-and-forth exchanges of views, in which each author quoted his opponent's words in order to dispute them, gave people a thrilling and unprecedented sense of participation in a vast, distributed debate.
The controversy generated in the international community by that book and its notion of "Bantu philosophy" placed Luba religion and thought at the centre of the vast intellectual debate that led to the birth of contemporary African philosophy and African inculturation theology.
As for the "vast wasteland" debate, at times it feels as if the balance has shifted so far toward a reflexive cynicism (about torture as entertainment, for example) that it's difficult even to talk about the subject — at least, without getting called a Margaret Dumont.
"We plainly have choices and their presidencies will assuredly be different, and the vast majority of debate viewers have learned this.
And the characters' inquiries have a sophisticated ambiguity: they ask about destiny and God ("Looking at the stars from the station roof, he'd felt something — a presence behind them, their vast immensity") and debate the reasons for persisting in a seemingly forsaken world.
There's no figure equivalent to the Prime Minister or First Minister in Strasbourg's vast dome-like debating chamber.
While the hope of a sustained participation of the USA in Asian development stirred the deal, what also remains to be understood is the vast array of debates that followed to unearth the participation/non-participation connotation of China in TPP.
In a good relationship, the vast majority of debates should end in compromises, not one person throwing up their hands resignedly.
So a vast majority of this debate is already moot.
Although still an area of scholarly and religious debate, the vast majority of Americans were taught that the first Thanksgiving occurred in 1621 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, following a particularly bountiful harvest.
