Socratic irony

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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.

From Salon • Feb. 11, 2017

The statements of the Memorabilia respecting the trial and death of Socrates agree generally with Plato; but they have lost the flavour of Socratic irony in the narrative of Xenophon.

From Apology by Jowett, Benjamin

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

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William

The Socrates of the Philebus is devoid of any touch of Socratic irony, though here, as in the Phaedrus, he twice attributes the flow of his ideas to a sudden inspiration.

From Philebus by Jowett, Benjamin

In this passage we can see, too, the supposed origin of another peculiar Socratic feature, the Socratic "irony."

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)