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Steelmanning
Steelmanning: Stating the opposing case so well its own advocates would accept your version. Find the part you cannot answer.
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Stating the opposing case so well its own advocates would accept your version.
Try it now
Take a position you disagree with. Write it at full strength, with its best evidence, in one paragraph.
What to do with the answer
Find the part you cannot answer. That is where the real disagreement is, and where your own position is load-bearing.
Where it misleads
Some positions do not have a strong version. Manufacturing one is its own distortion — say so instead.
The module it belongs to
- Argumentation — Build and evaluate arguments
The book behind it
- The scout mindset — Its big ideas, in our own words.