Example Sentences

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Then I ask the AI to quiz me on it, Socratically, pressing me on the connections I missed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He’s Socratically aware of what he doesn’t know, and his quest—to become a professional through submission to the stern tutelage of an experienced teacher—drives the film.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2015

I thought, before I can know the answer to that, logically, Socratically, I have to eliminate a few more possibilities.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 15, 2015

He had a notion he said, that he could argue Socratically; and he was always trying to introduce metaphors into his conversation.

From Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College by Benson, Arthur Christopher

Note how Socratically it is made to work itself out.

From Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus by Dakyns, Henry Graham