socratic
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3VERB + SOCRATIC
dispute
SOCRATIC + NOUN
method
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in
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adj
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons as well as his heirs in tennis. They were his lovers as well. Theirs was a relationship of a Socratic sort, a pedagogical eroticism between an adolescent protege which ingaged them in a mutual project of spiritual and physical development.
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the philosopher Socrates or his philosophy or methods.
a Socratic question
noun
A proponent of the philosophy or methods of Socrates.
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3His closest companions were handsome young boys who worshipped him and his game, whom Bill sought to remake in his own image. He had no family, no real heirs, and so his boys were his spiritual sons a
Wiktionarya Socratic question
WiktionaryThe end of which there were two little sketches of rhetoric and logic, the latter finishing with a specimen of a dispute in the Socratic method.
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