1.- The dialectical method is dialogue between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, questions are posed to filter out the truth. (Legal system today, lawyers can only “ask questions” of defendants)
2.- Irony - In the case of Socratic irony, Socrates might pretend to think his students wise or he might denigrate his own intelligence, as by pretending he doesn't know the answer. This allows the truth to be revealed by the other person (teacher) or the falsehood of the idea to be revealed by the person talking.
3. – Knowing that you know nothing, …coming from a position of limited or no understanding rather than a position of arrogance, opens the mind to new knowledge