What do you call someone who seeks correct information by being wrong on purpose?

What do you call someone who seeks correct information by being wrong on purpose?

Socrates

Stupid

I do this all the time.
>ask a genuine question
>none cares enough to reply
>make a statement I know is false as bait
>endless replies smugly correcting me
Way I see it, everyone get what we want out of it.

To some degree Trump does this too, but with the media to bring uncomfortable and otherwise ignored statistics to the masses.

sailing against the wind, übermensch style

but op probably meant pedagogic irony like socrates

gypsy

pls respond if correct

a tester

If this was Socrates style is it possible that Plato unironically lost the plot?

an INTP

Feigned ignorance

Smart

Anonymous poster

thought the exact same thing

OP

a spy

A skilled occultist

Huh? Plato continued to use Socratic irony as a device in his works after Socrates died and the dialogues were no longer based on his life.

This. Amazing how many people don't give a fuck until they're waiting in line to correct somebody. And yes any interest in politics becomes about it.

Uhhhhh, begging the question?

Diogenes the cynic thought Plato lost the plot.

this

Giacomo di Casanova spoke of making deliberate act of calculated folly, for no other reason than having something interesting to write about. Living a sagacious virtuous life is designed to be pretty boring

Fuck I've done this exactly and really fucked myself over so royally.

My posthumous novel is going to be epic though, just you wait.

will it be kino?

contrarian interloper?