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本杰明·富兰克林《本杰明·富兰克林自传》· The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin · 领导

Keimer and I liv'd on a pretty good familiar footing, and agreed tolerably well, for he suspected nothing of my setting up. He retained a great deal of his old enthusiasms and lov'd argumentation. We therefore had many disputations. I used to work him so with my Socratic method, and had trepann'd him so often by questions apparently so distant from any point we had in hand, and yet by degrees lead to the point, and brought him into difficulties and contradictions, that at last he grew ridiculously cautious, and would hardly answer me the most common question, without asking first, "What do you intend to infer from that?" However, it gave him so high an opinion of my abilities in the confuting way, that he seriously proposed my being his colleague in a project he had of setting up a new sect. He was to preach the doctrines, and I was to confound all opponents. When he came to explain with me upon the doctrines, I found several conundrums which I objected to, unless I might have my way a little too, and introduce some of mine.

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定位:Additional excerpt 35 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

白话

富兰克林和老板凯默相处不错,凯默不知他打算自立门户。凯默爱争论,富兰克林常用苏格拉底式提问,从看似无关的问题一步步引到要害,让他陷入矛盾。后来凯默变得过分谨慎,连普通问题都先问“你想推出什么结论”。但他因此佩服富兰克林的辩驳能力,提议合伙创立新教派:他讲道,富兰克林驳倒对手。富兰克林对教义有异议,要求加入自己的主张。核心是:提问能让人自己发现矛盾,但过度使用会让人防备。做法是:用提问帮人思考,而非逼人认输;合作前先谈拢原则。

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《富兰克林自传》中他在费城印刷所老板凯默手下工作时的故事。

今日一问

你提问是为了帮对方想清楚,还是为了让他难堪?

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