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单词 sophistry
释义

sophistryn.

/ˈsɒfɪstri/
Forms: Middle English sophestrie, Middle English–1600s sophistrie (Middle English sophistri), Middle English–1500s sophystrye (1500s sophystrie), Middle English– sophistry; Middle English safistre, soffistre, sofystry.
Etymology: < Old French sophistrie (modern French sophisterie , = Spanish sofisteria , Italian sofisteria ), or < medieval Latin sophistria : see sophist n. and -ry suffix.
1.
a. Specious but fallacious reasoning; employment of arguments which are intentionally deceptive.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun]
sophistry1340
chop-logic1533
Jesuitism1613
chopping of logic1668
casuistry1712
sophism1768
special pleading1813
subtilism1825
Jesuitry1832
verbalism1847
logic-chopping1904
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 65 Ine huyche manyere þet me zuereþ, oþer openliche, oþer stilleliche be art, oþer be sophistrie.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 343 Confessioun & contricioun..Shal be coloured so queyntly and keuered vnder owre sophistrie.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 5767 Tel on, as yt lyth in thy thouht, Wer yt deceyt or sophystrye.
1531 W. Tyndale Expos. Fyrste Epist. St. Jhon Prol. sig. A.viv Can ye..perswade vs thynk ye with your sophistry?
1547 Queen Katherine Parr Lamentacion of Synner sig. F.iiiv Stopping the mouthes of the vnlearned, with suttle..perswasions of..Sophistrie.
1634 W. Habington Castara ii. 70 Who will with silent piety confute Atheisticke Sophistry, and by the fruit Approve Religions tree?
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. 123 This Maule did use to spoyl young Pilgrims with Sophistry . View more context for this quotation
1712 A. Pope On Silence in A. Pope et al. Misc. Poems 146 The Parson's Cant, the Lawyer's Sophistry, Lord's Quibble, Critick's Jest; all end in thee.
1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity 186 I do not profess myself to be master of any uncommon art of detecting sophistry.
1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Falkland 65 I feel too well the sophistry of his arguments.
1871 R. H. Hutton Ess. II. 226 Nothing can exceed the tortuous sophistry of this admirable special pleading.
b. An instance of this; a sophism.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of
sophismc1350
fallacea1393
fallation1483
sophisticationa1492
fallax1530
fallacy1532
shift1545
elench1570
collusion1581
goose-trap1610
voidance1621
salvea1628
sophistry1673
wriggle1675
Jesuitism1749
special pleader1867
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. i. 9 By their villanies, sophistries, and arts of terrour.
1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxxviii. 90 Perplexed by sophistries, their honest eloquence rises into action.
1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. viii. 195 No sophistries of French philosophy on your part.
1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxi. 311 To disentangle the soul from the fatal and subtle sophistries of sin.
2. The use or practice of specious reasoning as an art or dialectic exercise.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical disputation or dialectics > [noun] > sophistry
sophistrya1400
sophism1566
sophistic1862
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > use or practice of > as instruction
sophistrya1400
sophistic1862
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > philosophy of the sophists > sophistic argument
sophistrya1400
sophistic1862
a1400–50 Alexander 4364 Ne foloȝe we na ficesyens ne philisophour scolis, As sophistri & slik thing to sott with þe pepill.
a1474 Inventory in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 362 Item, iij bokes of soffistre.
?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Diij We must haue sophystrye, Phylosophye and Logyck, as scyence necessarye.
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 251 Though I..do want (as they say) logicke and sophistrie, and good words, to tell you why it is so.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 51 The Milanesi are said to excell in the study of the Civill Law..those of Pavia in Sophistrie.
1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 29 Aristotle..rendred his followers more skilful in hatching..wrangling sophistrie, than true solid Philosophie.
1864 F. C. Bowen Treat. Logic ix. 267 The great use of disputation by the ancient sophists and the Schoolmen..tended to create a special art of sophistry.
3. Cunning, trickery, craft. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > cunning > [noun]
listOE
wiþercraftc1175
wilta1230
craftc1275
sleightc1275
engine?a1300
quaintisec1300
vaidiec1325
wilec1374
cautelc1375
sophistryc1385
quaintnessc1390
voisdie1390
havilon?a1400
foxeryc1400
subtletyc1400
undercraftc1400
practic?a1439
callidityc1450
policec1450
wilinessc1450
craftiness1484
gin1543
cautility1554
cunning1582
cautelousness1584
panurgy1586
policy1587
foxshipa1616
cunningnessa1625
subdolousness1635
dexterity1656
insidiousnessa1677
versuteness1685
pawkiness1687
sleight-hand1792
pawkery1820
vulpinism1851
downiness1865
foxiness1875
slimness1899
slypussness1908
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 125 The foule cherl [sc. the fowler] that for his coueytyse, Hadde hem betrayed with his sophistrye.
1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 110 Others, with all their sophistry, made gins and traps for birds.
4. The type of learning characteristic of the ancient Sophists; the profession of a Sophist.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > profession of
sophistry1836
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > philosophy of the sophists
sophistry1836
1836 J. W. Donaldson Theatre of Greeks (ed. 4) i. v. 88 Euripides was nursed in the lap of sophistry.
1869 A. W. Ward tr. E. Curtius Hist. Greece II. iii. iii. 434 Sophistry became a profitable trade.

Compounds

Objective (in sense 1a).
sophistry-weaving n.
ΚΠ
1859 A. Helps Friends in Council New Ser. II. ii. 25 His wearisome round of..dexterous sophistry-weaving.

Derivatives

ˈsophistry v. Obsolete transitive to maintain or argue sophistically.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > argue sophistically [verb (transitive)]
sophistry1563
evade1630
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 268/2 Unto whome the Lorde Cobham thus aunswered, it is well sophistried of you forsoth.
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