sophism

n. 诡辩

词形变化

sophisms 复数

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.

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  2. 2.

    A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.

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  3. 3.

    An intentional fallacy.

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  4. 4.

    Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.

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    What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?

    30 Oct 1980, H. Dieter Zeh, letter to John Archibald Wheeler. I expect that the Copenhagen interpretation will some time be called the greatest sophism in the history of science, but I would consider it a terrible injustice if—when some day a solution should be found—some people claim that ‘this is of course what Bohr always meant’, only because he was sufficiently vague.

  5. 5.

    Wisdom and knowledge.

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  6. 1.

    Archaic spelling of Sufism.

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词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

sophistication sophistry

上位词 1

fallacy

词源

From Middle English sophim, from Old French soffime, sofime, sofisme, sophisme, from Latin sophisma (“fallacy, sophism”), from Ancient Greek σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphĭsmă), from σοφίζω (sophízō) + -μα (-ma).

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