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  1. Method of teaching used by Socrates, in which
  2. he aimed to guide pupils to clear thinking on
  3. ethics and politics by asking questions and
  4. then exposing their inconsistencies in
  5. cross-examination. This method was effective
  6. against the sophists.
  7.