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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

Socratic
    adj 1: of or relating to Socrates or to his method of teaching;
           "Socratic teaching"

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]

3. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018)

SOCRATIC

   An early interactive learning system (not a language(?))
   developed at Bolt, Beranek & Newman.

   [Sammet 1969, p. 702].

   (1994-11-04)

Thesaurus Results for socratic:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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

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