Definition of Erotetic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to questioning. ¹

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Definition of Erotetic

1. interrogatory [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erotetic

erosions
erosive
erosive adenomatosis of nipple
erosive gastritis
erosiveness
erosivenesses
erosivities
erosivity
erostrate
erotema
erotemas
eroteme
erotemes
eroteses
erotesis
erotetic (current term)
erotetically

Literary usage of Erotetic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Greek Philosophers by Alfred William Benn (1882)
"It has already been stated that Socrates gave the erotetic method two new applications; we now see in what direction they tended. ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"erotetic philosopher! He has only been here some three or four days, and he knows all our polity better than we do! ..."

3. The Ancient History of China to the End of the Chóu Dynasty by Friedrich Hirth (1908)
"It was by such questions that Mencius, like most of the old Chinese philosophers, tried to prove his point, — the erotetic method by which Socrates used to ..."

4. The Scholastic Philosophy Considered in Its Relation to Christian Theology by Renn Dickson Hampden (1848)
"... us of the Socratic method of disputation— the erotetic method by which the Greek sage used to extort the truth from his reluctant opponent in argument. ..."

5. Elements of Logic by Richard Whately (1913)
"... m \Jci\a, Zeno, then, is hardly to be regarded as any further a logician than as to what respects his erotetic method ..."

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