Crossword-Solution: MAIEUTICS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Maieutics | n. | The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth. |
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| The Socratic method | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with MAIEUTICS (2)
Heuristics and maieutics, as methods of questioning human choices, those of craftsmen included, and generating new options, are essentially oral.
The other phase of the Socratic method, the _maieutics_, consisted in leading the pupil, by a further series of questions, to formulate the correct opinion of which the first hastily-given answer was only a fragment.
Quotes with MAIEUTICS (1)
To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity. But this also means: to be taught. The relation with the Other, or Conversation, is a non-allergic relation, an ethical relation; but inasmuch as it is welcomed this conversation is a teaching. Teaching is …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1991).