The description of the "meta framework": * Thesis/Starting Argument * Counter-Argument (paper requirement from Naval War College) * Rebuttal (differe

The description of the "meta framework": * Thesis/Starting Argument * Counter-Argument (paper requirement from Naval War College) * Rebuttal (different perspective, not your starting argument) Sounds like someone discovering a variation on the thesis-antithesis-synthesis dialectical method from philosophy for the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic Paine is likely well versed in the philosophy and knows exactly what she's doing. Pointing this out in case anyone wants to go deeper on this kind of approach. Much ink has been spilled over the years on different approaches, criticisms, etc.