PHIL101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Endless Sleep, Irony, Meletus
8 Dec 2017
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Perhaps called cross examination, used one on on. Negative method: start with a positive statement and show it leads to contradiction. The person you are conversing with by the end will not understand his statement. (the definitions we think we have of terms, will be questioned once we realize we cannot explain it or understand it). A pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other"s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning (dictionary) Socrates will appear really impressed, as in he wants to learn. Then asks to be taught, however he is pretending, to get the person to speaks more. Pretend to be ignorant to be able to question the person. Feign credebce in your adversary"s position to uncover his or her ignorance. Socrates uses this method on meletus to prove that he does not know what he is accusing socrates of.
