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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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However, the question "what amount and quality of evidence would justifiably convince us that a Boeing airliner hit the Pentagon in Sept. 11, 2001?" does fall within the scope of the Socratic method.
But you'll just say that you refuse to make it a normative discussion... fine.
edited to add: thank you, Pierre-Normand, for your sensible and soothing observations.