How can we structure philosophical criticism and dialogue scientifically around Aristotle’s three principles?

According to Aristotle, three principles can help us increase our effectiveness in dialogue:

Ethos: the credibility we have for the person with whom we are speaking.
Logos: the internal logic of what we say.
Pathos: the manner in which speech is delivered and connects with the speaker’s emotions.

In conversation, we can use a straw-man method: instead of seeing the strongest points in the other person’s idea, we portray the position as weaker than it really is in order to overcome it. But such a method is not philosophical.

A philosopher instead tries to engage a steel man. This means attempting to strengthen one’s interlocutor by drawing out the strongest elements of the other person’s position and showing that those elements have been seen and understood.

To treat another person as a steel-man interlocutor while also observing the principles of ethos, pathos and logos, we need to follow three principles of philosophical dialogue. Dr Areta discusses these three principles in this video.

YouTube video:
https://youtu.be/24slYyDbz1o