maieutic การใช้

Given a pre-modern understanding of reason, rationalism is identical to philosophy, the maieutic.
He would call for a maieutic or jurisprudential oratory art against the grain of the modern privileging of a dogmatic form of reason in what he called the geometrical method of Descartes and the Port-Royal logicians.
His sentences are complex and nuanced, even though balanced and sinuous, and the unfamiliar words he regularly employs would fill a substantial portion of this column : rescension, instauration, apodictic, stochastic, rebarbative, kerygmatic, scission, pericope, optative, maieutic, autochthanous, to list but a portion of them.