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= Erratic method = "Mistakes are those things that lead men to knowledge." --''Thermopolus and Errates ''

Erratic method, also known as the symbebekos method, is named after the Greek philosopher, Errates. The method encourages happy accidents between individuals. Those accidents are brought about by a playful bantering discussion, which Errates believed distracted the logical mind enough to reveal Platonic truths. The Erratic method is in direct contrast to the Socratic method, which encourages logical thinking through dialectical exchange.

Though the work of Errates was thought to have been lost during The Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, some fragments of his method were found by scholars like Nathan Beddes during an excursion near Caelian Hill. “It really was an amazing find,” said the software developer. “Errates has always been the stuff of rumors until we stumbled upon some writing fragments during our camping trip.” Beddes immediately recognized that the fragments were ancient and deposited them with the closest museum.

Since the discovery of these fragments (in quite the Erratic method way), the Erratic method has been adopted by several notable psychologists and scholars. The method encourages creatively disengaging the logical mind in ways previously scoffed.