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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Socratic \So*crat"ic\, Socratical \So*crat"ic*al\, a. [L.
     Socraticus, Gr. ????.]
     Of or pertaining to Socrates, the Grecian sage and teacher.
     (b. c. 469-399), or to his manner of teaching and
     philosophizing.
     [1913 Webster]


  
     Note: The Socratic method of reasoning and instruction was by
           a series of questions leading the one to whom they were
           addressed to perceive and admit what was true or false
           in doctrine, or right or wrong in conduct.
           [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Socratic
       adj : of or relating to Socrates or to his method of teaching;
             "Socratic teaching"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  29 Moby Thesaurus words for "Socratic":
     Augustinian, Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Hegelian,
     Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Humean, Husserlian, Kantian, Leibnizian,
     Neo-Hegelian, Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonic, Parmenidean,
     Peripatetic, Platonic, Pyrrhonic, Pythagorean, Sartrian,
     Schellingian, Schopenhauerian, Scotist, Spencerian, Thomist,
     Thomistic, Viconian, Wittgensteinian, pre-Socratic
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  SOCRATIC
       
          An early interactive learning system (not a language(?))
          developed at {Bolt, Beranek & Newman}.
       
          [Sammet 1969, p. 702].
       
          (1994-11-04)
       
       

















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