An adumbration often contributes more to dialectic than a rotund speech. Brevity stimulates dialectic. Even these thumb-rules may seem guaranteed to produce bedlam. And, indeed, when they are first tried, they generally do produce it. But inexperienced dancers on a ballroom floor and inexperienced skaters on an ice rink also collide.
Experience brings a sixth sense in Socratic dialectic too.
The will of self-insistence gives way to the will to learn. When a good basketball team has the ball, its members do not snatch the ball from each other but support the man who has it, and the man who has it passes it to a teammate whenever a pass is called for by the common purpose of the team. The point is that, in dialectic, it does not matter whose mouth gets used by the dialectical process, provided all are listening intently and exercise the freedom to interrupt with a question if they do not understand. Even Socrates, on rare occasions, countenanced postponement of the struggle to a more propitious occasion. The deliberate manner, and even more the ponderous manner, are mere impediments.