transitive. To exchange or bandy words; esp. in to chop logic: to exchange logical arguments and terms, bandy logic, reason argumentatively, argue.
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > employ sophism [verb (intransitive)] (6) to chop logic1528 transitive. To exchange or bandy words; esp. in to chop logic: to exchange logical arguments and terms, bandy logic, reason argumentatively, argue. to play the sophister?1550 In the phrase to play the sophister. Jesuit1601 intransitive. To act the Jesuit. Obsolete. rare. casuist1643 to play the casuist. special-plead1702 transitive. To use special pleading towards (a person, etc.), or in defence of (an argument, etc.). Now rare. special-plead1848 intransitive. To use special pleading or sophistical argument. |
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