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This is just the Socratic method. It's like...the oldest formal rhetorical strategy.
Shhhh don’t burst his bubble.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it
-Descartes or some shit
A stitch in time saves nine.
-Pliny the elder
(Psst it's not actually the socratic method)
I don't think so? The Socratic method wasn't necessarily a strategy intended to carefully persuade someone by bypassing psychological blockers. If anything, Socrates' counterparts were often antagonized and angered by his questions because he exposed contradictions.
I think the ethos behind it was that Socrates presumed he knew nothing, other people seemed like they knew things, so he asked them what they knew, since others were so bold as to make knowledge claims.