Socratic Elenchus in the Sophist

Problem-based Learning and the Socratic Elenchus in the Teaching of Literature

Historically, PBL has been deemed a functional method for the instruction of the sciences. Hence, its pedagogical strategy has been used by more than 80% of medical schools. In the teaching of the humanities, however, the method has taken a longer time to be assimilated. This paper then explores the application of PBL in the teaching of the humanities particularly in the field of literature. It...

The Socratic Bergson

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

Socratic Learning

Modern machine learning techniques often use discriminative models that require large amounts of labeled data. Since generating labeled training data sets is expensive, an alternative approach is to use a generative model, which leverages a simple heuristic to weakly label data. Domain experts prefer using generative models because they “tell a story” about their data. Unfortunately, generative...