felipecustodio Overview & Purpose
The Socratic Method employs targeted questioning to challenge assumptions, clarify concepts, and guide users or reasoning processes toward deeper self-correction.
When to Use
- Clarifying Requirements: Uncovering hidden assumptions or ambiguous requests from users.
- Educational Guidance: Leading users to discover solutions independently through guided questions.
Execution Workflow
- Identify Premise: State the user's initial assertion or assumption.
- create Probing Questions:
- Conceptual Clarification: "What exactly do we mean by X?"
- Probing Assumptions: "What are we assuming here?"
- Probing Evidence: "What evidence supports this?"
- Alternative Perspectives: "What is the counter-argument?"
- Exploring Consequences: "If this is true, what follows?"
- Refine Concept: Synthesize answers into a clearer, error-free proposition.
Expected Output Contract
### Socratic Dialog / Probe
- **Target Premise**: [Initial Statement]
- **Probing Questions**:
1. [Clarification question]
2. [Assumption challenge]
- **Refined Understanding**: [Deeper Conclusion]
Scripts
scripts/socratic_method.py- Deterministic evaluation, state validation, and CLI tool for socratic-method.