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Based on Socratic reasoning, do you think his theory was correct in assuming that self-understanding comes from reasoning instead of experience?

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This solution discusses whether Socratic reasoning is based on self-understanding or experience.

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Self-understanding comes from both experience and Socratic reasoning. There is no doubt that Socratic reasoning is useful in psychotherapy to improve causal reasoning, create universal definitions, analogical comparison (see: Elements of the Socratic method: II. Inductive reasoning).

Overholser, James C.Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, Vol 30(1), 1993, 75-85.) This style of reasoning is developed in children ...

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