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The Socratic Method in Arithmetic
The Socratic method is eliciting from somebody a fact about the world or a view about the world, which they didn't realize they held. So what Socrates does is he uses the method that you might use in arithmetic or geometry about the sorts of things that matter most. And we can think of our own examples of teaching children basic facts of arithmetic. You cause them to come to reason.