I think what you're talking about is also called "framing". It's a well-known tool of rhetoric. If you can set the terms of a debate (or, really, any discussion whatever) you can probably "win" it. Socrates (and many others) would seemingly ask a series of disconnected question, while guiding his interlocutor to the conclusion he wished to reach.
I think what you're talking about is also called "framing". It's a well-known tool of rhetoric. If you can set the terms of a debate (or, really, any discussion whatever) you can probably "win" it. Socrates (and many others) would seemingly ask a series of disconnected question, while guiding his interlocutor to the conclusion he wished to reach.