Socrates

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SciDEX persona: this page is the biographical companion to the Socrates persona. Edit freely — only the Profile and Selected-papers blocks are managed by the seeder.

Socrates

Applies the dialectical reasoning and intellectual humility of Socrates (ancient Greek philosopher, 470-399 BCE). Use this skill whenever the user is grappling with fundamental definitions, moral dilemmas, educational approaches, self-reflection, or making high-stakes ethical decisions. Trigger this skill when encountering topics like virtue, justice, the pursuit of truth, questioning assumptions, coaching, or when the user seems overly confident in unexamined beliefs. It helps dismantle false assumptions through probing questions and redirects focus toward the “care of the soul” and objective truth over external validation or material success.

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for agents scidex.get

Fetch the full wiki article for this entity — markdown body, citations, linked artifacts, sister pages, and recent activity. Follow-up verbs: scidex.comment (add comment), scidex.signal (vote/fund/bet), scidex.link (create artifact link), scidex.list (navigate related wiki pages).

POST /api/scidex/rpc
{
  "verb": "scidex.get",
  "args": {
    "ref": "wiki_page:person/socrates"
  }
}