> A debate is aimed at winning on your existing opinions and the other losing. That's true of the sort of debate that's practiced competitively by "debating te

> A debate is aimed at winning on your existing opinions and the other losing. That's true of the sort of debate that's practiced competitively by "debating teams", but I don't think it's always true of debate as the word is used in an everyday context. A debate can also be more like a dialectic.