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"Here is the Socratic method in crude form: When someone makes a claim about right and wrong or good and bad, question it. Ask what the claim means, and about other things its holder believes, and look for tension between those points; show with your questions that the claim must in some way be unsatisfactory to the person who made it. In effect you deny what your discussion partners say, but the denial is artful."
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For a man to be proud and high conceited, that he is not proud and high conceited, is of all kind of pride and presumption, the most intolerable. Marcus Aurelius,
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We’ve seen how the elenchus works. It refutes what you say by showing that it’s inconsistent with something else you think. This chapter dwells further and more generally on consistency because it is so central to the Socratic method. We will consider why Socrates regards consistency as important, how consistency relates to the truth, and why inconsistency sometimes seems less a pressing problem to us... "
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