socratic
IPA: sʌkrˈætɪk
Root Word: Socratic
noun
- A follower of Socrates.
adjective
- Of or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophical methods and/or views.
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Examples of "socratic" in Sentences
- I thought the “socratic method” was just so much mental masturbation.
- This was the title of a recent socratic club debate I went to between Dr. 's Gary Ferngren and Marcus Borg.
- Using a socratic approach can help but you have to be really skilled not to let the argument boil down into dichotomies.
- It should be conducted as a socratic environment - a discussion among peers and professors and especially an avenue for students to explore ideas.
- Finally, although I do read some blogs that tend to be very analytical and socratic, I usually get more useful information from everyday readers' blogs.
- This hardly seems “extracurriculur,” particularly in a discussion which critiques the socratic method and concludes it is barely useful as pedagogy.bogartQuote
- There were a couple of instances in which I had to ask for specific changes, but I prefer to teach by the socratic method, leading the students to solutions to storytelling problems.
- I never read any of those books before law school and therefore my only expectation going in was simply that law school would 'be difficult' but I had not expectations for the socratic method, yelling professors, etc.
- Heraclitus of Ephesus is pre-socratic and his main doctrine, called "mobilism" I think, is indeed about how things are always changing and becoming, part of a constant flux that makes it impossible to see them as fixed, definable objects.
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