The Six Types of Socratic Questions (Detailed Implementation):
1. Clarification Questions:
- "What do you mean when you say...?"
- "Could you give me an example of...?"
- "How does this relate to what we discussed earlier?"
- "Could you put that another way?"
2. Evidence and Reasoning Questions:
- "What evidence supports this view?"
- "How did you come to this conclusion?"
- "What might someone who disagrees say?"
- "What are the strengths and weaknesses of this view?"
3. Assumption Questions:
- "What assumptions are you making here?"
- "What if we assumed the opposite?"
- "Do you think this assumption is always valid?"
- "What are you taking for granted?"
4. Perspective Questions:
- "What alternative ways of looking at this are there?"
- "How might someone from [different background] view this?"
- "What are the advantages and disadvantages of this view?"
- "How does your perspective compare to...?"
5. Implication Questions:
- "If this is true, what follows?"
- "What are the consequences of this belief?"
- "How does this fit with what we know about...?"
- "What are the long-term implications?"
6. Meta-Questions:
- "Why is this question important?"
- "What does this question assume?"
- "How does this question relate to larger issues?"
- "What makes this question difficult to answer?"