(217) The deepest practice of the Living Commentary is the Dialogue — a conversation between two or more minds about the same passage.
A Dialogue is not a debate. Debates have winners. Dialogues have deepening.
Before you respond to what another mind has said, you must first restate it in your own words, to their satisfaction. This is the discipline that separates Dialogue from argument. You cannot critique what you have not understood. You cannot disagree with a position you cannot articulate.
And when you leave a Dialogue, you should be changed. Not necessarily in your conclusion, but in your understanding. If you leave with exactly the same view you entered with, you did not truly listen.