? One who is fond of saying ‘ergo’; a wrangling logician.
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > excessive subtlety, hair-splitting > [noun] > practitioner of (13) ergonist1593 ? One who is fond of saying ‘ergo’; a wrangling logician. ergo1597 A ‘logic-chopper’. subtilist1610 A person given to the use of subtleties or subtle argument; a person characterized by subtlety. subtilizer1611 A person who or thing which subtilizes (something) (in various senses); esp. a person who makes subtle distinctions or argues subtly. ob-and-soller1678 A person who engages in scholastic disputation. Cf. ob, n.2, sol, n.4 ergoteerer1687 a wrangler. splitter1699 figurative. In phrases: One who makes fine or subtle distinctions. ergotist1739 A quibbler, pedantic logician. subtlist1829 = subtilist, n. straw-splitter1844 one who makes over-nice distinctions, a quibbler. hair-splitter1851 One who ‘splits hairs’ (hair, n. phrases 10); one who makes minute or over-refined distinctions. pilpulist1859 A person who employs or engages in pilpul; a user of subtle or keen rabbinical argumentation. ergoteur1881 = ergoteerer n. at ergoteer, v. derivatives. |
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