Sentence:  Another of Socrates' techniques was <WSD>anacrisis</WSD>, meaning luring one's interlocutors (or maybe oneself) into making explicit one's otherwise hidden and taken-for-granted assumptions—in other words, surfacing deep assumptions as explicit propositions. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An interrogation that provokes its subject to make explicit his or her underlying assumptions and deeply held values.