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Zhēnzhèng kāifàng de tǎolùn, bú shì qǔxiāo pànduàn biāozhǔn, ér shì yǔnxǔ biāozhǔn běnshēn jiēshòu zhíyí, jiǎnyàn yǔ xiūdìng.

Genuinely open discussion does not abolish standards of judgment; rather, it allows the standards themselves to be questioned, tested, and revised.

Gōnggòng tǎolùn ruò zhǐ yǔnxǔ biǎodá zuìzhōng lìchǎng, ér bù gǔlì zhǎnshì tuīlǐ guòchéng, jiù nányǐ xíngchéng zhēnzhèng kě jiǎnyàn de gòngshí.

If public discussion allows only final positions and does not encourage people to show their reasoning, it is difficult to form a genuinely testable consensus.

Zhīshi tǐxì néngfǒu bǎochí huólì, qǔjué yú tā shìfǒu yǔnxǔ fǎnlì jìnrù tǎolùn, bìng jù cǐ xiūdìng zìshēn de héxīn mìngtí.

Whether a body of knowledge remains vibrant depends on whether it allows counterexamples into discussion and revises its core propositions accordingly.