Search Result for "socratic irony":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning; 



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Socratic irony
    n 1: admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn
         while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close
         questioning