. Usually, especially in Socratic context, an attempted refutation by questioning. In Aristotle it means refutation, sometimes limited to refutations in SYLLOGISTIC form. Ignoratio elenchi: ignoring the...

Socratic Method (or Method of Elenchus or Socratic Debate) is a dialectic method of inquiry, largely applied to the examination of key moral concepts and first described by Plato in the Socratic Dialogues. For this, Socrates is customarily regarded as...