Socratise
See also: socratise
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]Socratise (third-person singular simple present Socratises, present participle Socratising, simple past and past participle Socratised)
- Alternative form of Socratize
- 1879, Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information - Volume 5 -, page 305:
- Why, then,' he proceeds to ask, ' can we not Socratise a little?'
- 1891, John Stuart Verschoyle, The History of Modern Civilization: A Handbook, page 204:
- Ramus, fascinated by Plato and by the dialogues in which Socrates expounds his ideas with as much simplicity as freedom, endeavoured to Socratise in his turn.
- 1968, The Twentieth Century - Volumes 176-177, page 24:
- Insofar as it is rational it is literate (most people cannot Socratise the world's problems in their heads), and insofar as it is audio-tactile it is obtained by selective example and conditioning.