socratic irony

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   admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning

   Broaderirony

Questions about socratic irony

What does socratic irony mean?

socratic irony means "admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning".

Is socratic irony a common word?

socratic irony is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.