Elenctic

The “elenctic” mode, named from the Socratic elenchos, is more confrontational and is aimed at removing false convictions, while the ❋ Graver, Margaret (2008)

The elenctic method probably plays some role in advancing one's understanding, especially the step from perception to belief. ❋ Silverman, Allan (2008)

The elenctic practice of Socrates would determine whether other accounts are consistent with one another. ❋ Silverman, Allan (2008)

His Xenedemus is a short Plato-style elenctic dialogue on themes from Porphyry™s ❋ Ierodiakonou, Katerina (2008)

The elenctic dialogue in Plato's style seems to have been considered particularly useful for polemical purposes. ❋ Ierodiakonou, Katerina (2008)

Aristotle's “elenctic refutation” has been fruitfully compared to a Kantian transcendental argument. ❋ Gottlieb, Paula (2007)

The modern debate finds its counterpart in debate among scholars about what Aristotle is aiming to do in his elenctic discussion. ❋ Gottlieb, Paula (2007)

Under the cool gaze of the elenctic eye, they are tested for consistency with other beliefs that lie just outside love's controlling and often distorting ambit. ❋ Reeve, C. D. C. (2007)

The attempt to formulate an account of love free from puzzles and immune to elenctic refutation must lead on from beautiful bodies to beautiful souls, and so to the beautiful laws and practices that will improve souls and make young men better. ❋ Reeve, C. D. C. (2007)

As a man who loves boys in an idiosyncratic, because elenctic, way, ❋ Reeve, C. D. C. (2007)

Socrates 'lessons in love, we may infer, are elenctic lessons ” lessons in how to ask and answer questions. ❋ Reeve, C. D. C. (2007)

I mean, the defense Socrates 'familiar spirit or daimonion prevents him from giving by not preventing him from giving the one in which he speaks and acts in his own accustomed elenctic way ” in which he plays the part of himself ❋ Reeve, C. D. C. (2007)