Socratic irony

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Socratic irony

Profession of ignorance and of willingness to learn as one interrogates another on the meaning of a term.

Socratic irony

(Philosophy) Philosophy a means by which the pretended ignorance of a skilful questioner leads the person answering to expose his own ignorance

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Socratic irony - admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning

irony - incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"

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