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 The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
SOCRATIC

   An early interactive learning system (not a language(?))
   developed at {Bolt, Beranek & Newman}.

   [Sammet 1969, p. 702].

   (1994-11-04)
    
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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