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A method of argumentative questioning that exposes contradictions and the limits of what people think they know.
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Socratic dialogue
A method of argumentative questioning that exposes contradictions and the limits of what people think they know.
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Socratic dialogue is presented as a method for exposing ignorance by slowly revealing the flaws in statements people believe are self-evidently true.
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"...would spend all day arguing with people in something called a Socratic dialogue. He would spend all day arguing with people in something called..."
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"...would spend all day arguing with people in something called a Socratic dialogue. And showing the flaws in your reasoning. Showing you why you..."
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"...Socrates did. And this is what he called a sphere. psychotic dialogue and actually we still use this in many different places like for..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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