Maieutic Prompting
Maieutic prompting generates a tree of recursive explanations for and against an answer, then infers the most logically consistent answer from the relations among them.
Description
Named after the Socratic method, it is designed to tolerate individual explanations that are wrong or inconsistent.
Sources
- Jung et al. (2022). Maieutic Prompting: Logically Consistent Reasoning with Recursive Explanations.
Cite this entry
Protologue. (2026). Maieutic Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0043). https://protologue.com/t/maieutic-prompting/
BibTeX
@misc{protologue_maieutic_prompting,
title = {Maieutic Prompting},
author = {{Protologue}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques, v1.0.0},
note = {Entry PTL-0043},
url = {https://protologue.com/t/maieutic-prompting/}
}