Socrates used a critical approach called the "elenchus" or Socratic method to examine people's views. Here "elenchi" is the genitive singular of the Latin noun "elenchus", which is . The Latin form "elenchus" (plural "elenchi") is used in English as the technical philosophical term. Clitophon misunderstands the Socratic method of elenchus, the cross-examination statements of interlocutors. However to actually experience aporia through elenchus, Clitophon needs to acknowledge ignorance and bad qualities. Pieter Boddaert featured it in his "Elenchus Animalium" with the name "Mustela flavigula". Elenchus tenuicornis is an insect species in the genus "Elenchus". Elenchus () is the central technique of the Socratic method.