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Of or pertaining to Socrates or his philosophy, followers, etc., → Socratic irony, → Socratic method.

Socrates (469?-399 B.C.), Athenian philosopher.

A means by which the pretended ignorance of a skillful questioner leads the person answering to expose his own ignorance (Collins).

→ Socratic; → irony.

The use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition (Dictionary.com).

→ Socratic; → method.