Socratic elenchus

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• socratic elenchus — noun Usage: usually capitalized S : the method of questioning and cross examination used by Socrates …   Useful english dictionary

• Socratic method — Part of a series on …   Wikipedia

• elenchus —   n. syllogistic refutation.    ♦ Socratic elenchus, use of question and answer to show untenability of opponent s position.    ♦ elenctic, a. refuting …   Dictionary of difficult words

• elenchus — n. (pl. elenchi) Logic logical refutation. Phrases and idioms: Socratic elenchus an attempted refutation of an opponent s position by short question and answer. Derivatives: elenctic adj. Etymology: L f. Gk elegkhos …   Useful english dictionary

• Socratic Puzzles — is a collection of essays by libertarian philosopher Robert Nozick. It was published in 1997 by Harvard University Press. ynopsis Introduction Nozick disclaims the title political philosopher and characterizes his Anarchy, State, and Utopia as an …   Wikipedia

• elenchus — noun A technique of argument associated with wherein the arguer asks the interlocutor to agree with a series of premises and conclusions, ending with the arguers intended point. The elenchus begins when an interlocutor makes some moral claim that …   Wiktionary

• Socratic method — The method of teaching in which the master imparts no information, but asks a sequence of questions, through answering which the pupil eventually comes to the desired knowledge. Socratic irony is the pose of ignorance on the part of the master,… …   Philosophy dictionary

• elenchus — (Gk., cross examination) The dialectical or Socratic method of eliciting truth by cross examination; hence sometimes the elenctic method. See also ignoratio elenchi …   Philosophy dictionary

• elenchus — [ɪ lɛŋkəs] noun (plural elenchi kʌɪ) Logic a logical refutation, especially the Socratic method of eliciting truth by question and answer. Origin C17: via L. from Gk elenkhos …   English new terms dictionary

• Socrates and the beginnings of moral philosophy — Hugh H.Benson INTRODUCTION Cicero in Tusculan Disputations famously tells us that Socrates first called philosophy down from the sky, set it in cities and even introduced it into homes, and compelled it to consider life and morals, good and evil …   History of philosophy

• Sceptics (The) — The sceptics Michael Frede INTRODUCTION When we speak of ‘scepticism’ and of ‘sceptics’, we primarily think of a philosophical position according to which nothing is known for certain, or even nothing can be known for certain. There are certain… …   History of philosophy