Steps in Socratic Method
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5.
Socrates analyzes the definition by asking questions that expose its weaknesses.
1.
Socrates finds an issue.
2.
Socrates isolates a key philosophical issue that needs analysis.
3.
Socrates professess ignorance and requests the help of his companion.
4.
Socrates' companionproposes a definition of the key term.
7.
The subject is made to face his own ignorance.
6.
The subject produces another definition, one that improves on the earlier one.
