When examining a truth-claim, what three-step procedure can you follow?

Clarify meanings → check the evidence → judge: integrate the weighed claims into a coherent overall picture.

To put yourself in a "distanced, examining, reflective relationship" to a truth-claim, you can work through three steps:

1. Clarify meanings (Bedeutungen klären). Understand and make precise what is actually being claimed — you can't even test a claim whose terms are unclear.
2. Check the evidence (Belege prüfen). Try to support and to refute the claim; see what the evidence does to it.
3. Judge (Urteilen). Weigh the competing truth-claims and integrate them into a coherent overall picture.

The order is deliberate: meaning before evidence before verdict. Skipping to a verdict on an unclear or unexamined claim is exactly the failure the procedure prevents.