Socratic irony

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• Socratic irony — сократический метод ведения спора …   Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

• Socratic irony — сократический метод ведения спора …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

• Socratic irony — pretended ignorance in discussion. [1870 75] * * * …   Universalium

• Socratic irony — noun The act of asking someone a question in order to demonstrate his or her ignorance …   Wiktionary

• Irony — Ironic redirects here. For the song, see Ironic (song). For other uses, see irony (disambiguation). A Stop sign ironically defaced with a beseechment not to deface stop signs Irony (from the Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation… …   Wikipedia

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• irony — irony1 /uy reuh nee, uy euhr /, n., pl. ironies. 1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, How nice! when I said I had to work all weekend. 2. Literature. a. a technique of… …   Universalium

• irony — noun (plural nies) Etymology: Latin ironia, from Greek eirōnia, from eirōn dissembler Date: 1502 1. a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other s false conceptions conspicuous by adroit… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates — The cover page to Søren Kierkegaard s university thesis. On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (Danish: Om Begrebet Ironi med stadigt Hensyn til Socrates) is Søren Kierkegaard s university thesis paper that he submitted in… …   Wikipedia

• Socraticirony — Socratic irony n. Profession of ignorance and of willingness to learn as one interrogates another on the meaning of a term. * * * …   Universalium