Sophistry
['sɒfɪstrɪ] or ['sɑfɪstri]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.
(n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
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同義詞及近義詞：
n. Paralogy, paralogism, false logic, fallacious reasoning, flaw in the argument, inconclusive reasoning, reasoning in a circle, begging the question.
整理:泰丝
同義詞及反義詞：
[See EXPLAIN]
編輯:帕梅拉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. The controversial method of an opponent distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is that of the later Sophists a Grecian sect of philosophers who began by teaching wisdom prudence science art and in brief whatever men ought to know but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of words.
整理:莱缪尔
例句/造句/用法:
- It presented itself to her, with no sophistry upon it, in its own plain nature. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Humphrey, that is all sophistry, and you know it, said his wife. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I may feel--nay, know--that in uniting herself to Mr Rokesmith she has united herself to one who is, in spite of shallow sophistry, a Mendicant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- This I believe in; but this court should also contain at least two scientific men, who would not be blind to the sophistry of paid experts. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- For him the teachings of Adam Smith and Turgot were idle sophistries. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Duty is duty, John, and no amount of sophistries may change it. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
編輯:利拉