Commentary: Coda—a Socratic dialogue: Plato

Commentary: Coda--a Socratic dialogue: Plato.

Epimenides Where do you come from, Socrates, and where are you going? Socrates Actually, it was you I was looking for in the marketplace. I just met with Theodorus and Alcibiades and we had a discussion that was well worth hearing about the interesting letter of the noble Charles Poole. Epimenides What do you think of the present debate, Socrates? Socrates Good heavens, I fancy you will never l...

Pictorial Socratic Dialogue and Conceptual Change

Counter-examples used in a Socratic dialogue aim to provoke reflection to effect conceptual changes. However, natural language forms of Socratic dialogues have their limitations. To address this problem, we propose an alternative form of Socratic dialogue called the pictorial Socratic dialogue. A Spring Balance System has been designed to provide a platform for the investigation of the effects ...

Defining futile life-prolonging treatments through Neo-Socratic Dialogue

BACKGROUND In Japan, people are negative towards life-prolonging treatments. Laws that regulate withholding or discontinuing life-prolonging treatments and advance directives do not exist. Physicians, however, view discontinuing life-prolonging treatments negatively due to fears of police investigations. Although ministerial guidelines were announced regarding the decision process for end-of-li...

Socratic Trees

We consider the method of Socratic proofs (SP-method). SP-method enables a formal explication of the idea of solving logical problems (i.e problems of entailment/ derivability/ theoremhood) by pure questioning, that is, by transforming the relevant initial question into consecutive questions without making any use of answers to the questions just transformed. Our aim is to give a method of tran...

Socratic Proofs