Meaning Of The Word Maieutic

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maieutic in American English
designating or of the Socratic method of helping a person to bring forth and become aware of latent ideas or memories
adjective: of or pertaining to the method used by Socrates of eliciting knowledge in the mind of a person by interrogation and insistence on close and logical reasoning

maieutic in British English
adjective: of or relating to the Socratic method of eliciting knowledge by a series of questions and answers

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