To have a debate and conversation at the same time.
To debate aimed at neither party wins or loses. To come up with a collective idea.
To take 2 aposing ideas and have a debate untill it turns into a evolving conversation in where all parties have a more understanding of the wider points of view.
My boy thinks we should never let punk rockers in hip hop clubs. I believe they should. We had a dabatesstion on a run about this and decided they are all against the "Man" and come out with a "Rap/Ska" album. The dabatession brought us together.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)