socratic irony in English
noun
1
a pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can then be challenged.
Menexenus appreciates Socratic irony and instantly recognizes this leitmotif of Plato's anti-rhetorical polemic: ‘You are always toying with the orators, Socrates ’.
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1. The present paper, with this as the starting point, analyses the importance of caution and prudence in Socratic irony, as political rhetoric in city state politics.