Adjudicate competing intuitions to a defensible settled position
Holds two incompatible intuitions side by side, works out why each seems true, identifies what would resolve the conflict, and proposes which view survives or how both are partly right.
In / outTwo or more competing intuitions → resolution verdict with reasoning chain and proposed settled position
You might say…
“I keep arguing both sides in my head and I don't know which one I actually believe.”
What it does
Single-judgement skill: holds two or more plausible-but-incompatible intuitions side by side, writes out why each seems true, identifies what evidence or logic would resolve the conflict, and proposes which view survives — or the synthesis under which both are partly right. Used in a deliberate reasoning session whose explicit purpose is resolving internal intellectual tension; the scholar stays in the loop to own the verdict.
Trigger: Use in a deliberate reasoning session whose explicit purpose is resolving internal intellectual tension — when stalling between two positions is costing progress.
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