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Socratic irony is when you pretend to be ignorant to expose the ignorance or inconsistency of someone else.
Socrates was a famous Greek philosopher known for his probing questions. Irony is when a statement means the opposite of its literal meaning. That should help you remember that Socratic irony is a technique where the questioner admits (falsely) to not knowing something as a way of tricking the other person into revealing his own lack of knowledge or a flaw in his logic. Socratic irony involves pretending to be ignorant to show someone else is ignorant: thus, the irony.
Merriam-Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 2015 的解释是
pretended ignorance or willingness to learn from others assumed for the sake of making their errors conspicuous by means of adroit questioning
跟楼主提到Webster's Third New International Dictionary的
a. : feigned ignorance designed to confound or provoke an antagonist : dissimulation — compare socratic irony
不同。
看来两本词典有区别，更多讨论见：
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发表于 2019-11-4 23:18:09
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