The Dialogic method usually called "Socratic" is, more accurately, Platonic, ascribed by Plato to his character Socrates in fictional dialogues. Instead, if there is a Method that can be attributed to the actual Socrates, it is Reflection, formulated by the Delphic principle Know Thyself. Another product of the confusion between a fictional and actual Socrates is the meaning of the proposition 'I know only that I do not know anything', which, taken at face value, expresses Agnosticism, but interpreted as ironic, in a contrived scenario, expresses methodical Skepticism with the ulterior purpose of establishing some other Knowledge, much like the pattern of Cartesian meditation. Now, each of the prominent Methods of Modern Philosophy originates in Reflection, but is extended in a direction not necessarily entailed in the possible Agnostic modesty of its founder.
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