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maieutics

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Ma`ieu´tics
n.1.The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
maieutics
the method used by Socrates in bringing forth knowledge through questions and insistence upon close and logical reasoning. — maieutic, adj.
See also: Knowledge
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He became the pure logic, no longer depending on the strong emotional appeal (the tantrum), often in the heat of debate, dialectics and maieutics present.
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Such concern for the pacific inbreaking of newness, Robert Gibbs maintains, distinguishes Socratic maieutics from many other forms of education: "maieutics preserves the integrity of the learner from the violence of a force exercised against the learner, [and] teaching .
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He is quite insistent that we recognize that teaching is more than maieutics, the technique of helping the student to recall the truth that is latent within himself or herself.
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