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maieutic, a. (and n.)|meɪˈjuːtɪk|
Also 7 majeutic.
[ad. Gr. µαιευτικ-ός (lit. ‘obstetric’: used fig. by Socrates), f. µαιεύεσθαι to act as a midwife, f. µαῖα midwife.]
Pertaining to (intellectual) midwifery, i.e. to the Socratic process of assisting a person to bring out into clear consciousness conceptions previously latent in his mind.
1655Stanley Hist. Philos., Plato xv. 46 Of Platonick Discourse there are two kinds, Hyphegetick and Exegetick [of which a sub-division is called] Majeutick. 1856W. A. Butler Hist. Anc. Philos. I. 374 The method of Socrates is..essentially a ‘maieutic’ or obstetric method. 1868Contemp. Rev. VII. 12 Teaching botany..by what he truly calls a maieutic process, drawing out intelligence before communicating knowledge. 1882Sat. Rev. 23 Sept. 415/2 Examples of Mr. Cory's stimulating and maieutic method of dealing with history. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Cath. React. (1898) VII xi. 176 Their maieutic ingenuity was vain.
b. n. pl. The maieutic method.
1885W. H. Payne tr. Compayré's Hist. Pedagogy 23 Maieutics, or the art of giving birth to ideas. |