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This may have been articulated as such earlier by someone else, but prior to Aristotle, there was a history of observation by the pre-socratic philosophers to substantiate understanding.— Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
Even today, I'm not sure how to describe my approach -- a little bit of lecture, some light-contact socratic, a song, a dance, whatever works.— PrawfsBlawg
Much more informative than the socratic / non-socratic blather.— PrawfsBlawg
Sure, the socratic method could lead to musings about how the photography shows a nugget being dipped into salsa picante, which is a Mexican food.— Romer!can
The fundamental flaw in their ideology is the fact that they make 'assumptions' to prove their theory, but they can not support those assumptions, when they are asked to justify them, they resort to the kind of sophistry that would make socrates blush. (the 'socratic method' being nothing but covert sophism)— Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52

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