07. Learning the Socratic method, part 2 → the "how"

• Parent page → 🧠 Learning how to think
• (This page has a lot of overlap with 03. Manifesto - “Why I Should Learn the Socratic Method”, but the aim is to make it more systematic and thorough, rather than a top-of-mind brain dump)

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• Ok, so we saw in 06. Learning the Socratic method, part 1 → the rationale why it’s profound
  • Cure you delusions of wisdom! (Double ignorance)
  • Improve your thinking!
  • Root out the commonplace!
• So, now what? What do I do?

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• The technique(s)
  • Aporia (one of the key aims/end-goals)
  • The elenchus (one of the key techniques)
  • Epagoge
• Moves (to use whilst doing “the technique”)
  • The use of concrete examples and analogies
  • Collection and division
• “The Socratic Function”
  • There’s a chapter about this! I might already have grokked it whilst writing the other pages
  • Adversarial thinking

Appendix

• How to use the Socratic method with other people