{
  "id": "maieutic-prompting",
  "code": "PTL-0043",
  "term": "Maieutic Prompting",
  "aliases": [],
  "category": "reasoning",
  "definition": "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.",
  "example": null,
  "broader": [],
  "narrower": [],
  "related": [
    "self-consistency",
    "chain-of-verification"
  ],
  "introduced": 2022,
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Maieutic Prompting: Logically Consistent Reasoning with Recursive Explanations",
      "authors": "Jung et al.",
      "year": 2022,
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11822"
    }
  ],
  "url": "https://protologue.com/t/maieutic-prompting/",
  "citation": "Protologue. (2026). Maieutic Prompting. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0043). https://protologue.com/t/maieutic-prompting/"
}