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Definition of Socratic irony
1. Noun. Admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning.
Definition of Socratic irony
1. Noun. The practice or act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate his or her ignorance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Socratic Irony
Literary usage of Socratic irony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Republic of Plato: With Studies for Teachers by Plato, William Lowe Bryan (1898)
"Note on the Socratic irony. In 336, and following, we have u good example of ...
However, the true Socratic irony does not consist in mere byplay, ..."
2. The New Epoch for Faith by George Angier Gordon (1901)
"Socratic irony is merciless, and at the same time it is genial; ... The Socratic
irony is an illustration of the remark made above that humor is essentially ..."
3. The New Epoch for Faith by George Angier Gordon (1901)
"Socratic irony is merciless, and at the same time it is genial; ... The Socratic
irony is an illustration of the remark made above that humor is essentially ..."
4. The History of Pedagogy by Gabriel Compayré, William Harold Payne (1905)
"THE Socratic irony.—To form an intelligible account of the Socratic method, ...
Then he resorted to what has been called the Socratic irony.1 He raised a ..."
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