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2. Socratic method - Wikipedia

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   The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus or Socratic debate) is a form of argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions.. In Plato's dialogue "Theaetetus", Socrates describes his method as a form of "midwifery" because it is employed to help his interlocutors develop their understanding in a way analogous to a child developing in the womb.

3. Socratic questioning - Wikipedia

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   Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) [1] is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enables the scholar/student to examine ideas and be able to determine the validity of those ideas". [2]

4. Socratic dialogue - Wikipedia

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   Socratic dialogue (Ancient Greek: Σωκρατικὸς λόγος) is a genre of literary prose developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BC. The earliest ones are preserved in the works of Plato and Xenophon and all involve Socrates as the protagonist .

5. Asking yourself Socratic questions can calm your irrational ...

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   Here’s how to walk through some questions commonly used in the Socratic method. The questions and wording can vary depending on the resource, therapist or patient’s experience, experts said ...

6. Dialectic - Wikipedia

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   The Socratic dialogues are a particular form of dialectic known as the method of elenchus (literally, "refutation, scrutiny" [5]) whereby a series of questions clarifies a more precise statement of a vague belief, logical consequences of that statement are explored, and a contradiction is discovered.

7. Theaetetus (dialogue) - Wikipedia

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   This method, later also called Socratic method, consists in eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers. Protagoras, shown at the right with Democritus , was famous for the quote "Man is the measure of all things" and argued that knowledge was obtained from the senses.

8. Philosophical methodology - Wikipedia

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   The Socratic method or Socratic debate is a form of cooperative philosophizing in which one philosopher usually first states a claim, which is then scrutinized by their interlocutor by asking them questions about various related claims, often with the implicit goal of putting the initial claim into doubt. It continues to be a popular method for ...

9. Socrates - Wikipedia

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   The Socratic method of questioning, or elenchus, takes shape in dialogue using short questions and answers, epitomized by those Platonic texts in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine various aspects of an issue or an abstract meaning, usually relating to one of the virtues, and find themselves at an impasse, completely unable to define ...