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sophist

/sof-ist/US // ˈsɒf ɪst //UK // (ˈsɒfɪst) //

复杂的,复杂,复杂性,诡辩家

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation.a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
    • : a person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.
    • : a philosopher.

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Examples

  • If his Ethicist gig ever winds up feeling too constricting, he can always launch a column called The Sophist.

  • He traces the Sophist by descending subdivision from the acquisitive genus of art.

  • The Sophist is a hunter of walking animals: which may be divided into two classes, wild and tame.

  • Again, we may find the Sophist by descending through a different string of subordinate classes from the genus — Acquisitive Art.

  • The application of this Elenchus is the work of the Sophist, looked at on its best side.

  • The Sophist is traced down, from the genus of separating or discriminating art.