maieutic

There is a maieutic between the object and the system, in which the human inventor merely "listens" to the cues, reading from the text of matter.

In philosophy, maieutic concepts historically have their origin in Plato's dialogues of Socrates.

The last 10 words in the 1998 national spelling bee included "prairillon," "daedal," "parrhesia," "risorgimento," and "maieutic."

With graduates, he was superb; his maieutic skills in classes were matchless, and a string of distinguished monographs by supervisees pay tribute to his care and kindness.

It is generally believed that Møller had a maieutic relationship with Kierkegaard, hence Kierkegaard's description of Møller as, "the confidant of Socrates".

In recent decades, Leo Strauss sought to revive "Classical Political Rationalism" as a discipline that understands the task of reasoning, not as foundational, but as maieutic.

He would call for a maieutic or jurisprudential oratory art against the grain of the modern privileging of a dogmatic form of reason in what he called the "geometrical method" of Descartes and the Port-Royal logicians.

When she asks Ishmael if he will teach her, he is initially ambivalent due to her very young age, though this frustrates Julie and her arguments convince Ishmael that she may indeed be open to his maieutic teaching style.

In particular, the Babylonian text Dialogue of Pessimism contains similarities to the agonistic thought of the sophists, the Heraclitean doctrine of contrasts, and the dialectic and dialogs of Plato, as well as a precursor to the maieutic method of Socrates.

His sentences are complex and nuanced, even though balanced and sinuous, and the unfamiliar words he regularly employs would fill a substantial portion of this column: rescension, instauration, apodictic, stochastic, rebarbative, kerygmatic, scission, pericope, optative, maieutic, autochthanous, to list but a portion of them.