Sophism
['sɒfɪz(ə)m] or ['sɑfɪzəm]
解释:
(noun.) a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.
查理校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
乔校对
同义词及近义词:
n. Fallacy, paralogism, paralogy, quibble, fallacious argument.
乔伊手打
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Fallacy, quibble, paralogism
ANT:Truth, argument, reason, logic, syllogism
埃德蒙手打
解释:
n. a specious fallacy..—n. Soph′ist one of a class of public teachers of rhetoric philosophy &c. in Greece in the 5th century B.C.: a captious or fallacious reasoner—also Soph′ister (Shak.): a student at an English university in his second or third year the students in these years being called junior and senior sophister respectively.—adjs. Sophis′tic -al pertaining to a sophist or to sophistry: fallaciously subtle.—adv. Sophis′tically.—n. Sophis′ticalness the state or quality of being sophistical.—v.t. Sophis′ticāte to render sophistical or unsound: to corrupt by mixture.—adj. Sophis′ticāted adulterated: impure: not genuine.—ns. Sophisticā′tion act of sophisticating adulterating or injuring by mixture; Sophis′ticātor one who sophisticates or adulterates; Sophis′ticism the philosophy or the methods of the sophists; Soph′istress a she-sophist; Soph′istry specious but fallacious reasoning.
手打:西摩
例句:
- A demonstration, if just, admits of no opposite difficulty; and if not just, it is a mere sophism, and consequently can never be a difficulty. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
- Will they not be sophisms captivating to the ear, having nothing in them genuine, or worthy of or akin to true wisdom? 柏拉图. 理想国.
- This is the cause of many mistakes and sophisms in philosophy; as will naturally be imagined, and as it would be easy to show, if there was occasion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
录入:曼蒂