| 单词 | sophistic |
| 例句 | The characters are treated with odd touches of realism and their sophistic arguments are stingingly psychologized. 'Iphigenia in Aulis' at Getty Villa: Chasing the ever-elusive Euripides 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Ever so polite, flattering and sophistic, Grange exists to bend people to his will. Theater Review: Lyle Kessler’s ‘Collision’ at Rattlestick Theater 2013-01-23T23:19:08Z It’s a kind of sophistic logic, suggesting that a White person can’t be racist if they have once helped a Black person, he said. Ron Johnson pushes racial divisions in his closing message to Wis. GOP voters 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z “Lying flat is my sophistic movement,” he wrote, referring to the Greek philosopher Diogenes, who was known for living in a barrel. Young Chinese take a stand against pressures of modern life — by lying down 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Earlier this month dozens of telecommuting Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout to oppose CEO Mark Zuckerberg's refusal to take a strong stance against the racist, violent and sophistic content posted by President Donald Trump. In protest of Facebook's failure to moderate hate, Verizon and Unilever stage a boycott 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Zuckerberg's attitude towards the role of social media in serving as an arbiter of truth differs from his peers at Snapchat and, recently, Twitter, which made an about-face in its policies around Trump's sophistic tweets. Silicon Valley goes mask off: Tech CEOs veer right amid political turmoil 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The sophistic and hypocritical arguments against those who disagree with their hatred and fear may work with some Trump supporters, but not with those who think for themselves. Protesting the new president 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z However, these charges are nothing more than sophistic opportunism. To Govern Is to Choose: We Are Making Poor Choices on Research Funding 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z Besides, in the midst of much demonstrated truth there is sometimes an element of error, not demonstrated but asserted on the strength of some plausible and sophistic reasoning that is taken for a demonstration. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z But the Christians argue sophistically, when they say that the son of God is the word itself. Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix 2011-10-12T02:00:42.117Z What they had, perhaps, acquired from the sophistic movement was a touch of effrontery. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z The gravest of them is, to argue sophistically, to suppress facts or arguments, to misstate the elements of the case, or misrepresent the opposite opinion. On Liberty 2011-01-12T03:00:34.363Z Already in Juvenal’s life the brilliant sophistic movement had set in which was destined to carry the literary charm of Hellenism throughout the West. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Mr. Jowett censures this speech as sophistic and confused in view. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion It is justice to the seller, but, argue as sophistically as you like, it is not justice to the purchaser. The Hills and the Vale A cynic or a hypocrite trained in a sophistic school might offer occasional help with the theory. Euripedes and His Age 2011-03-05T03:00:26.617Z Most of those who read the Apologia pro Vitâ Suâ were not familiar with Newman's masterly English, and his competent, if not supreme, dialectic and sophistic. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Of course the same argument could be used sophistically by a man with strong sensual passions and appetites, who could similarly urge that he must be intended to gratify them. Beside Still Waters With the movement in Greek thought which is generally known as sophistic, a new view of popular belief appears. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity One of the principal advocates of that view among writers on Political Economy is the vivacious, acute and practically not unskillful, but sophistically superficial Macleod. Principles Of Political Economy Does not the opposition of these sophistic arguments remind you of brambles, that the wind has entangled one with another? The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura We argued ethics sophistically as to whether a convinced agnostic might on occasion hide what he believed. A Tramp's Notebook Hitherto such writers have confined their view mostly to speculative points, sophistic reasonings, and sarcastic interpellations. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection And Plato's development of this theme shows clearly just what a general historical consideration might lead us to expect, namely, that it was naturalism and sophistic that jointly undermined the belief in the old gods. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity In any case, the bourgeois, like the Jew, remains only sophistically in political life, just as the citizen remains a Jew or a bourgeois only sophistically; but this sophistry is not personal. Selected Essays Man's character is too sophistically mixed for the alternative of "honest or dishonest" to be a sharp one. Memories and Studies And yet they have been often and sophistically cited by the vivisector as plausible arguments for inflicting both excessive and useless pain. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals The sophistic tyrants of Paris are loud in their declamations against the departed regal tyrants who in former ages have vexed the world. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) The Socratic philosophy is in many ways a continuation of sophistic. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Then, finding she could win no more in that direction, Phoebe turned to another aspect of the problem, and began to argue with unexpected if sophistic skill. Children of the Mist Some other personality, compounded of all those ugly, sophistic things that lurk in every human character, seemed to be wrestling with, obscuring the real man. The Mating of Lydia Prof. Le Bon, in his sophistic volume on the "Psychology of Peoples," advocates it strenuously. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Lack of merit may be so complete, so grotesque, that the composition affords to the sophistic eye a high order of comedy. Shandygaff On the other hand, there is a tradition that he maintained that “according to nature” there was only one god, but “according to the law” several—a purely sophistic view. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Dear Friend, you're right and I am wrong; My quibbles are not worth a song, And I sophistically tease My fancy sad to tricks like these. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell The extreme anti-slavery men somewhat sophistically twisted it into an assistance to the South. Abraham Lincoln, Volume II It was admitted that her familiar spirit guesses, attempts to extract information from the people who sit with her, and tries sophistically to conceal his failures. The Making of Religion To many of my readers the foregoing section will appear superfluous, polemical, sophistic—three bad things. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti A leading part was here played by the sophistic distinction between nomos and physis, Law and Nature, i.e. that which is based on human convention, and that which is founded on the nature of things. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity However, by the time she reappeared in the sitting-room he had explained himself to himself with sophistic satisfaction. The Beautiful and Damned In Greece, the problem of art and of the artistic faculty arose for the first time after the sophistic movement, as a result of the Socratic polemic. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Theology, the divine science, corresponds with the Empyrean, "because of its peace, the which, through the most excellent certainty of its subject, which is God, suffers no strife of opinions or sophistic arguments." Among My Books Second Series Now, by Clotho's own spindle, my questions are free from all sophistic taint. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03 Towards sophistic he takes a similar, but less sympathetic attitude. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Would you want every one to accept that sophistic rot? The Beautiful and Damned But the adversaries distort the meaning by sophistically transferring the universal particle to only one part: "All things will be clean to those having given alms." Apology of the Augsburg Confession All nature beckons you forth and murmurs to you sophistically that such hours should be devoted to collecting impressions. Italian Hours There are those among the uninitiate vulgar—and those, too, who carry under the philosophic cloak hearts still uninitiate—who revile such interpretations as merely the sophistic and arbitrary sports of fancy. Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face This too is a genuinely sophistic view, characteristically deviating from that of the naturalist Democritus in its limitation to the human and social aspect of the question. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Of course any principle can be used sophistically; but I think that many people commit a kind of idolatry by worshipping their rules and principles rather than by trusting God. The Altar Fire Thus Basil had spent his schooldays mostly in the practice of sophistic argument, and the delivery of harangues on traditional subjects. Veranilda Whether or not the Sophists were quite fairly chargeable with that sort of "inward lie," just this, at all events, was in the judgment of Plato the essence of sophistic vice. Plato and Platonism The sophistic tyrants of Paris are loud in their declamations against the departed regal tyrants, who in former ages have vexed the world. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke The reasoning is not sophistic; on the contrary, in their attacks the sophists took up a position outside the foundation of popular belief and attacked the foundation itself. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity And the sophist and orator are in the same case; although you admire rhetoric and despise sophistic, whereas sophistic is really the higher of the two. Gorgias The second argument is the well-known sophistic one, that the gods are nomôi, not physei, they depend upon convention, which has nothing to do with reality. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity We designated Socratic philosophy, in its relation to popular belief, as a reaction against the radical free-thought of the sophistic movement. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity They may be summed up in an arithmetical formula:— Tiring: gymnastic:: cookery: medicine:: sophistic: legislation. Gorgias To this may further be added the negative point that he never in any of his works made Socrates define his position in regard to the sophistic treatment of the popular religion. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity The art of dressing up is the sham or simulation of gymnastic, the art of cookery, of medicine; rhetoric is the simulation of justice, and sophistic of legislation. Gorgias |
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