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Originally Posted by JayUtah
Further, the Socratic method is intended to investigate questions in morality and other notions that defy concrete explanation or definition. It is utterly out of place in a criminal or accident investigation. Where questions don't have objectively right or wrong answers, the Socratic method helps shape the axioms on which they are based. This is often very helpful in understanding why certain ideas are commonly held. But when the question does have a right and wrong answer -- such as, "Did a Boeing airliner hit the Pentagon in Sept. 11, 2001?" the Socratic method is largely a waste of time.
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I think you overly restrict the scope of a philosophical approach. Many questions have been raised in this thread that are not quite as straightforward as the one you just mentioned but are still relevant to many claims made by both CTers and non-CTers on this forum. You yourself have made quite a number of philosophical points while commenting on the status and nature of such things as evidence, motive, justification or truth. These philosophical comments of yours were no more no less to the point than many equally interesting points made by Joe Durnavich, Brumsen and others.