[newheart]

Disingenuous?

I suppose we should throw out the entire socratic method of discourse?

[highball]

“I suppose we should throw out the entire socratic method of discourse?”

Huck wasn’t trying to start a Socratic debate. He was answering a direct question (one to which he knows the answer) with a question allowing him to avoid directly saying what he wanted to say.

So yes, disingenuous.