Socratic Method Thread

As a manifestation of our communal belief in the power of asking questions, this thread is for the conducting of a conversation [or conversations] through questions and [therefore] counterquestions only.

Do we need more threads like this that have a certain je ne sais quoi?

Passion fruit cheesecake is the nicest flavor.

@trev33 said
Passion fruit cheesecake is the nicest flavor.

@fmf said
I interpret that as a question presented in a kind of unquestioning blank prose. So I will answer you using the RHP Socratic Method:

Have you perhaps not compared passion fruit to enough nicer flavours before bandying about the word "nicest"?

@moonbus said
Isn’t it so that by asking enough leading questions, one can bring even an illiterate slave boy to recognize, apparently for the first time, that the angles of a triangle always add up to the same number, thereby disproving Plato’s contention that the boy remembered this from a previous life ?

@fmf said
I hear what you say but will insinuating that Trev33 is "an illiterate slave boy" include or exclude him from this collective enquiry?

@the-gravedigger said
Why would he insinuate such a thing when it is obvious for all to see ?

@moonbus said
How is it possible to insinuate the obvious ?

@moonbus said
How is it possible to insinuate the obvious ?

@fmf said
Do we need more threads like this that have a certain je ne sais quoi?

@fmf said
As a manifestation of our communal belief in the power of asking questions, this thread is for the conducting of a conversation [or conversations] through questions and [therefore] counterquestions only.

@trev33 said
Passion fruit cheesecake is the nicest flavor.

@fmf said
I interpret that as a question presented in a kind of unquestioning blank prose. So I will answer you using the RHP Socratic Method:

@the-gravedigger said
That was my point.