Wheel of Reason Activity: Thinking Through Conflicting Ideas
Back to Wheel of Reason ◀
Activity:
Thinking Through Conflicting Ideas
It is important to be able to think about and write clearly on ideas that conflict with one another. After all, lots of ideas do. Here is a structure you can use.
Analyzing Conflicting Ideas
Use this template for thinking through conflicting ideas now:
  1. Two important ideas I am focusing on are...
  2. The conflict(s) that I see between these two ideas is/are...
  3. One important idea about this conflict is...
  4. In other words...
  5. An example of this from real life is...
  6. One reasonable objection to the position I am taking is...
  7. I would respond to this by saying...

  8. Continue the dialogue between these two positions