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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Matthews, Gareth B
• Cohen, S. Marc

Titel

The Socratic Method

Ist Teil von

• Why Plato Lost Interest in the Socratic Method, 2022, p.1-9

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• What is the Socratic method? The term has been understood in different ways, so we will need to be clear about what it means here. I take it to be the so-called Socratic elenchus. This is a species of philosophical analysis whose aim is to arrive at the definition of a problematic concept by means of subjecting alternative proposals to potential refutation by means of counterexample. Six key features of the method are delineated.