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suh kra tik

  • a  of or relating to Socrates or to his method of teaching

  • In an era of what Secretary-General Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches calls "socratic evangelism," Christianity must seek to identify these secular currents .
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  • ‘Do Female Astronauts Wear Bras in Space?’
    Socratic social network Quora recently questioned the effect of zero gravity on breasts. Faced with the slightly rude query, "Do female astronauts wear bras in space?" NASA astronaut trainer Robert Frost cited physics: "Even though there is no noticeable pull from gravity, there is still inertia. So while they are running on ... More »        
    July 2, 2013 - New York Magazine
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  • Woody Allen in Baltimore City Paper
    When I first started I could never write for women,Allen says. "Keaton and I started dating, we started living together, and became very close. Through some kind of Socratic osmosis or something, I started writing for women. I started...
  • Karl Popper in The Guardian
    Professor Meltzer was a giant of legal education and of the bar. He was known to earlier generations of students for his mastery of the Socratic method, and of students themselves. These students -- present day leaders, judges and lawyers -- recall... Saul Levmore http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Levmore&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHFJr7Z0C2vq9GPxAwdNVkcy2RsXA AScribe (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl%3Fascribeid%3D20070104.151502%26time%3D15%252032%2520PST%26year%3D2007%26public%3D0&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEr_cI62d27yGd1v-3yBNWm3HGY5g Jan 4, 2007 92023 122130 socratic What seems to have been lost is a dynamic the philosopher Karl Popper called the wisdom of the Socratic saying, 'I know that I do not know.'" It's the wisdom embedded in the apophatic tradition within Christianity, that which recognises...

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