单词 | misology |
释义 | misologyn. Hatred of reason or discussion; (also) hatred of learning or knowledge. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] > hatred of reason misology1819 1819 J. Richardson tr. I. Kant Logic Introd. 32 Who hates science, but does not love wisdom the less on that account, is named a misologist. Misology commonly arises from a want of scientific knowledge, and from a certain sort of vanity therewith conjoined. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Specimens of Table Talk (1835) II. 114 Misology, or hatred and depreciation of knowledge. 1847 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (1853) 327 Bruno's scorn sprang from no misology. 1865 G. Grote Plato II. xxiii. 155 Tinged with misology, or the hatred of free argumentative discussion. 1952 Bull. Atomic Scientists Oct. 210/3 The fundamental errors of our present visa policy are..manifestations of an underlying xenophobia and misology. 1971 D. H. Fischer Historians' Fallacies p. xi There is an appropriately ugly name for this prejudice: misology, or logic-hating. 1994 D. L. Hall Richard Rorty v. 202 Misology is a common condition of our late modernist culture. 2006 A. Cools in K. Crimmins & H. De Vriese Reason of Terror ii. 48 The precarious position of philosophy in the face of terrorism reveals the conditions of misology today. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1819 |
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