http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee 2004-01-27T02:57:07+00:00 http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee#comment-936 2004-01-27T02:57:07+00:00 2004-01-27T02:57:07+00:00 <p>How else could I properly honor my European roots? ;o)</p> GreyStork http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee#comment-935 2004-01-26T22:19:32+00:00 2004-01-26T22:19:32+00:00 <p>So does that constitute a tie-breaking vote for maieutic?</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee#comment-934 2004-01-26T18:08:27+00:00 2004-01-26T18:08:27+00:00 <p>The work I meant to draw your attention to was in fact <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0872201368/ref=lpr_g_1/102-7523225-9862551?v=glance&#38;s=books">The Republic</a>, and not so much The Statesman.</p> GreyStork http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee#comment-933 2004-01-26T18:01:37+00:00 2004-01-26T18:01:37+00:00 <p>If you read any of Sokrates&#8217; dialogues, as written by Plato, the concept will become thoroughly demystified. Sokrates&#8217; maieutic method is one of <i>leading the witness</i>, so to speak. I can recommend Plato&#8217;s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail//052144778X/qid=1075168231/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/102-7523225-9862551?v=glance&#38;s=books&#8221;&gt;The Statesman for excellent examples of maieuticism and to a lesser degree <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail//0192834274/qid=1075168399/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/102-7523225-9862551?v=glance&#38;s=books&#8221;&gt;Symposium (mostly recommendable for <a href="http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc13.htm">Aristophanes</a>&#8217; fascinating and humerous account of the origin of love and the two sexes).</p> GreyStork http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee#comment-932 2004-01-26T15:45:30+00:00 2004-01-26T15:45:30+00:00 <p>And they&#8217;re tied, folks!</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee#comment-931 2004-01-26T15:42:54+00:00 2004-01-26T15:42:54+00:00 <p>I vote for this one. I don&#8217;t really find the meaning hard to grok, as I&#8217;ve experienced the effect many times. In fact, it&#8217;s one of the main reasons I like to argue online so much.</p> Mithrandir http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee#comment-930 2004-01-26T14:49:44+00:00 2004-01-26T14:49:44+00:00 <p>Yuh, that&#8217;s where the points for Hoitiness come in, it took me a while as well. I hear the etymology involves &#8220;giving birth&#8221; and Socrates meant it as &#8220;having to do with the process of questions giving birth to ideas&#8221;.</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/learning-is-tasty-and-good-with-coffee#comment-929 2004-01-26T14:38:15+00:00 2004-01-26T14:38:15+00:00 <p>I vote for pleonasm/pleonast. <br /> <br /> First, it&#8217;s a really cool word which I plan to use often. <br /> <br /> Second, I don&#8217;t understand the primary definition of maieutic.</p> sister sledge