Socratic
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Socratic
adj 1: of or relating to Socrates or to his method of teaching;
"Socratic teaching"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Socratic \So*crat"ic\, Socratical \So*crat"ic*al\, a. [L.
Socraticus, Gr. ????.]
Of or pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage and teacher.
(b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and
philosophizing.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The Socratic method of reasoning and instruction was by
a series of questions leading the one to whom they were
addressed to perceive and admit what was true or false
in doctrine, or right or wrong in conduct.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
29 Moby Thesaurus words for "Socratic":
Augustinian, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Hegelian,
Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Humean, Husserlian, Kantian, Leibnizian,
Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonic, Parmenidean,
Peripatetic, Platonic, Pyrrhonic, Pythagorean, Sartrian,
Schellingian, Schopenhauerian, Scotist, Spencerian, Thomist,
Thomistic, Viconian, Wittgensteinian, pre-Socratic
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