Socratic Engagement...anyone game?
I have created a debate community for those who are tired of talking past one another and want to try engaging in dialogs where the aim is to draw out your opponents (actually held) position through polite inquiry. The aim is to expose logical inconsistencies without arguing against your opponent. If you do it right they argue against themselves with your help. If anyone knows what I am talking about and wants to try (in either role) feel free to join this community. The way I envision the group is that it will be oriented around expression of opinions known to be controversial (and preferably actually held by the prospective interlocutors). at that point they will be asked a battery of questions which the interlocutor is to answer as directly as possible. Whether or not logical inconsistencies are revealed will be left up to the readers to decide for themselves.
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