maieutic

Of or relating to the aspect of the Socratic method that induces a respondent to formulate latent concepts through a dialectic or logical sequence of questions.

Serving to assist or facilitate childbirth; hence, in the Socratic method (see II.) aiding in bringing forth, in a metaphorical sense; serving to educe or elicit.

The art of midwifery: applied by Socrates to the method he pursued in investigating and imparting truth; intellectual midwifery.

Serving to assist childbirth.

Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.

maieutical