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Or maybe it was a different problem: In classic Socratic irony, there has to be somebody who doesn’t get the joke, and I had a sneaking suspicion it might be me.

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Partly because I enjoy characters that display a degree of Socratic irony but mainly due to the fact he is voiced by Kazuhiko Inoue.

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A marionette Socrates, aided by his wife and students, uses abstract parables, paradoxes and, of course, the Socratic method and Socratic irony to examine epistemological and moral topics like justice, democracy and liberty.

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The sophists using the Socratic irony are pronounced happy because of the mass and volume of their words; others play upon words.

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That is, Carlyle uses irony in the common English sense; the Socratic irony, the irony of the "Modest Proposal."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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