Socratic questioning yields linguistic definitions rather than new ethical discoveries.

Evidence

All that is needed is knowledge of how the words in question are used. But when our inquiry is concluded, we have made only a linguistic discovery, not a discovery in ethics. — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 448

Categorization

• DEFINE: DEFINE: Clarifies the linguistic and inductive nature of the Socratic method for defining ethical terms.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 448
• XREF: connects to: Deep wisdom may lie in maintaining wonder rather than accumulating answers — , A Year of World Stories, 10898; Means-ends reasoning excludes moral categories by structuring action technically rather than ethically. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 502

Broader Connections

• Deep wisdom may lie in maintaining wonder rather than accumulating answers #complicates (0.40) — , A Year of World Stories, 10898