# Practice Discussion and Idea Trees\[Dface\]
**URL:** https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-discussion-and-idea-trees-dface/2025
**Category:** Friendly
**Tags:** idea-trees, tree-based-discussion
**Created:** [March 28, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-discussion-and-idea-trees-dface/2025 "2025-03-28T23:13:32Z")
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2025, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-discussion-and-idea-trees-dface/2025/1 "2025-03-28T23:13:32Z")
**Topic Summary:**
I’m going to use this thread to practice discussion trees and idea trees from ET’s article(link [here](https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/discussion-trees)). I’ll look at my past discussions and try to tree them.
**Goal:**
I want more practice with discussion and how to format discussion.
**CF Relevance:**
I think it’s related to CF’s ideas on discussion. Like discussion is a way of error correcting. Also i think this post is related to CF’s ideas on practice like practice to error correct and automate.
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### Author:  [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2025, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/practice-discussion-and-idea-trees-dface/2025/2 "2025-03-29T00:12:47Z")
From the Discussion Trees [article](https://www.elliottemple.com/essays/discussion-trees):
> Consider a sentence like “I think W because X, Y and Z.” This single sentence contains four ideas. A tree could represent it with four nodes.
Ok, so far it looks like making trees is a really big task to me. I have lots of questions I think.
For now, I wanna try to follow what the above quote says and make nodes out of a sentence in a discussion. I hope it’s ok if I just make nodes. I don’t know what is the root node or not:
From [Elliot’s Microblogging:](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/256)
> [@Elliot's Microblogging](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/256):
>
> I recently found out that _smoking has health benefits_.
It looks like this sentence has two ideas.
Nodes of each idea:
> [@Elliot's Microblogging](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/elliots-microblogging/191/256):
>
> I now feel pretty lied to.
I see one idea:
I don’t know why it’s taking so long to come up with something to write for this thread. I feel so unsure about what to focus on. I thought I could just look at a sentence from a discussion and break it down into a tree.
I rather do this tip from the discussion tree article:
> **Tip:** If you don’t already know how to break a specific idea down into parts, that means there’s room for improvement in your understanding. Try figuring it out, e.g. by brainstorming some parts it might have.
I don’t think read it right and thought it was a suggestion for an idea tree. It’s a suggestion to brainstorm the parts of an idea.