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Types of Socratic Questions and Examples
The Socratic Questioning technique involves different type of questions. Some examples of these are:
Socratic Question Type |
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| Clarification questions |
- What do you mean by…?
- Could you put that another way?
- What do you think is the main issue?
- Could you give us an example?
- Could you expand upon that point further?
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| Questions about an initial question or issue |
- Why is this question important?
- Is this question easy or difficult to answer?
- Why do you think that?
- What assumptions can we make based on this question?
- Does this question lead to other important issues and questions?
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| Assumption questions |
- Why would someone make this assumption?
- What is _______ assuming here?
- What could we assume instead?
- You seem to be assuming______.
- Do I understand you correctly?
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| Reason and evidence questions |
- What would be an example?
- Why do you think this is true?
- What other information do we need?
- Could you explain your reason to us?
- By what reasoning did you come to that conclusion?
- Is there reason to doubt that evidence?
- What led you to that belief?
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| Origin or source questions |
- Is this your idea or did you hear if from some place else?
- Have you always felt this way?
- Has your opinion been influenced by something or someone?
- Where did you get that idea?
- What caused you to feel that way?
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| Implication and consequence questions |
- What effect would that have?
- Could that really happen or probably happen?
- What is an alternative?
- What are you implying by that?
- If that happened, what else would happen as a result? Why?
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| Viewpoint questions |
- How would other groups of people respond this question? Why?
- How could you answer the objection that ______would make?
- What might someone who believed _____ think?
- What is an alternative?
- How are ____ and ____’s ideas alike? Different?
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