logomachy
/loh-gom-uh-kee/US // loʊˈgɒm ə ki //UK // (lɒˈɡɒməkɪ) //
逻各斯,逻各斯人,胃肠道疾病,逻缉
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
plural lo·gom·a·chies.
- : a dispute about or concerning words.
- : an argument or debate marked by the reckless or incorrect use of words; meaningless battle of words.
- : a game played with cards, each bearing one letter, with which words are formed.
Examples
Reid and his successors were quite as much alive as Locke to the danger of falling into mere scholastic logomachy.
This logomachy of vituperation was opened by President Wheelock who wrote an unsigned attack upon the Trustees.
If this sort of logomachy pleases you as an intellectual exercise, well and good, if it goes no further.
The following is a specimen of the logomachy of the day, in which Mencius is supposed to have excelled.
But a greater champion than William was needed to wipe away what seems to the world the cobwebs of mediæval logomachy.
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