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So there's steelmanning, where you construct a view that isn't your interlocutor's but is, according to you, more true / coherent / believable than your interlocutor's.
[nitpick] while also being close to your interlocutor's (perhaps so that your interlocutor's view could be the steelmanned view with added noise / passed through Chinese whispers / degenerated).
A proposed term
Exoclarification? Alloclarification? Democlarification (dēmos - "people")?
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