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Definition of Erotetic
1. interrogatory [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Erotetic
| erosions erosive erosive adenomatosis of nipple erosive gastritis erosiveness erosivenesses erosivities erosivity erostrate erotema | erotemas eroteme erotemes eroteses erotesis erotetic (current term) erotetically |
Literary usage of Erotetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greek Philosophers by Alfred William Benn (1882)
"It has already been stated that Socrates gave the erotetic method two new
applications; we now see in what direction they tended. ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"erotetic philosopher! He has only been here some three or four days, and he knows
all our polity better than we do! ..."
3. The Ancient History of China to the End of the Chóu Dynasty by Friedrich Hirth (1908)
"It was by such questions that Mencius, like most of the old Chinese philosophers,
tried to prove his point, — the erotetic method by which Socrates used to ..."
4. The Scholastic Philosophy Considered in Its Relation to Christian Theology by Renn Dickson Hampden (1848)
"... us of the Socratic method of disputation— the erotetic method by which the
Greek sage used to extort the truth from his reluctant opponent in argument. ..."
5. Elements of Logic by Richard Whately (1913)
"... m \Jci\a, Zeno, then, is hardly to be regarded as any further a logician than
as to what respects his erotetic method ..."
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