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Socratic Irony

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Noun

1. socratic irony

admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Socratic Irony

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noun
philosophy
a means by which the pretended ignorance of a skilful questioner leads the person answering to expose his or her own ignorance

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Socratic Irony

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pretense of ignorance in a discussion to expose the fallacies in the opponent's logic

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Socratic Irony

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n.
Profession of ignorance and of willingness to learn, used as a ploy to spur others to discover their own ignorance through their attempts to explain a word or concept.

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