So there’s steelmanning, where you construct a view that isn’t your interlocutor’s but is, according to you, more true / coherent / believable than your interlocutor’s.
[nitpick] while also being close to your interlocutor’s (perhaps so that your interlocutor’s view could be the steelmanned view with added noise / passed through Chinese whispers / degenerated).
[nitpick] while also being close to your interlocutor’s (perhaps so that your interlocutor’s view could be the steelmanned view with added noise / passed through Chinese whispers / degenerated).
Exoclarification? Alloclarification? Democlarification (dēmos—“people”)?
(I think I’ll go with “alloprosphanize” for now… not catchy but ok. https://tsvibt.github.io/theory/pages/bl_25_10_08_12_27_48_493434.html )
These are good ideas, thanks!