英语词汇“sophistical”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

“Sir, your wife is living: that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical—is false.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Raise eyebrow at claim that "all speech that is presented as logically valid is sophistical"; observe mildly that Groys's own writing is presented as logically valid. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z

Their first college years were full of logic, mostly derived from Aristotle, who identified 14 main types of valid deduction and 13 key gambits of sophistical trickery. In Praise of ‘Rationality’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

Supreme Court, which accepted New London’s sophistical argument that virtually erased the Constitution’s circumscription of government’s eminent- domain power. Opinion | Hollywood’s newest action star: The Constitution’s taking clause 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The deeper mystery is why certain conservatives who were once Trump’s fiercest critics have become his most sophistical apologists. Opinion | The Sleazy Case Against Mueller’s Probe 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z

The spread of the sophistical argument that a “diversity of opinions” is the same as “diversity” is worrying. The Trump administration has an interesting definition of diversity | Arwa Mahdawi 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

Though sometimes more sophistical than philosophical, more brilliant than profound, and betraying prejudices when he should elucidate principles, he was, upon the whole, not unworthy to be called "The Prince of Critics." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z

Arguments of a like sophistical nature were always now vaguely occurring to him, and he took care not to reason them out, being conscious of the fallacy of them, yet cherishing them. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z

Among others an able critic has thus summed up his impressions:— "Of the whole we will say briefly, that its premises are monstrous, its reasoning sophistical, its conclusions absurd, and its spirit diabolic." Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z

The sophistical arguer in “Fifine” feels this same power of music to express thoughts not to be made palpable in any other manner. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z

He never made a sophistical argument in his life, and never could make one. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z

This is the reason why almost all ethical teachers, whether philosophical or religious, condemn suicide, although they themselves can only give far-fetched sophistical reasons for their opinion. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z

Those arguments were partly solid and some partly sophistical. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z

And therefore the Fathers of Trent, as you all know, whatever sophistical objections may be raised, did not pass their decrees on dogmatic questions by numerical majorities, but with moral unanimity. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z

In one of these he points out the sophistical character of the indictment in declaring the "Age of Reason" a blasphemous work, tending to bring in contempt the holy scriptures. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z

To ascribe mere volition to man seems, it has been justly said, sophistical. Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z

Thou hast bound many eyes In sophistical sleep, But the angel that flies Will thy vigilance keep? Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.103Z

Because it leads you into sophistical by-ways; your tendency to mysticism gives an apparently logical foundation and thereby strengthens you the more in this dangerous course. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z

The few clear-headed and impartial planters who, proof against Rody’s sophistical speeches, were assailed by him in a different manner—by specious promises of enlarged possessions, or by matter-of-fact appeals for the advancement of civilisation. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z

If you have not the time—O sophistical Sybarite! inclination—send him to those who, as you know, will inquire. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z

It only serves as a veil, behind which is concealed those sophistical tricks, by which both the performer and the spectator are deceived. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z

Geometers have, in all ages, been open to the imputation of endeavouring to prove the most general facts of the outward world by sophistical reasoning, in order to avoid appeals to the senses. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z

But the arguments by which he persuades himself that he is not bound are not honest, since he has recourse to what he knows are hair-splitting distinctions, quibbles and sophistical reasonings. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z

The argument was sophistical enough, but for two reasons it carried conviction. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z

Mandeville's sophistical dictum was blindly accepted, and trifles light as air gave rise to the conventional hostile meeting. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z

“Duns” or “Dunsman” was a name early applied by their opponents to the followers of Duns Scotus, the Scotists, and hence was equivalent to one devoted to sophistical distinctions and subtleties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z

Never for a moment was positive religion entangled in a sophistical optimism. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z

At the same time, there are three species of syllogism, scientific, dialectical and eristical or sophistical; and in consequence there are different ways of acquiring premisses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip"

The science, falsely so called, of the several theological schools, their groundless distinctions and sophistical demonstrations, he regarded as the great source of heresy and scepticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral"

We can hardly reckon a man in the right, who is so by accident, and through sophistical reasoning. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3

Now it is obvious that the whole tendency of this sophistical teaching is destructive and anti-social. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

With other thought, mark also the Abbé Maury; his broad bold face, mouth accurately primmed, full eyes, that ray out intelligence, falsehood,—the sort of sophistry which is astonished you should find it sophistical. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII

Fleda drew a long breath: she saw in the poor woman something much better than sophistical ease, a crude elation that was a comparatively simple state to deal with. The Spoils of Poynton

Here everything brilliant was cherished, everything which caught public attention: Latin declamation and disputation, poetry, the comedy of the schools, sophistical philosophy and bombastical oratory, in short all empty show which impressed the ignorant. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle

From the obsolete sense of a catching at any possible plea or objection comes the adjective “captious,” i.e. sophistical or fault-finding. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades"

His art has been described as devoid of the idealism of theirs, Euripides. his genius as rhetorical rather than poetical, his morality as that of a sophistical wit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama"

"Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance." The Bible Story

The arguments of the Orl�ans advocates were far superior to the shallow, sophistical, utterly shameless harangues which had been delivered in defence of Jean. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10)

The philosophy which it had inherited was one of dogmatism, sophistical in that it made its own syllogisms the final limit and bound of truth. Reminiscences, 1819-1899

So that, in fact, the Almighty, saying No when he should have said Yes, did not know what he meant, till such a sophistical blasphemer set him right! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2

The other is a systematic exposure of sophistical tricks, mostly verbal quibbles, whereby a delusive appearance of victory in debate may be obtained. Logic, Inductive and Deductive

The savory ham was very appetizing, the Deacon was very hungry, and the argument was sophistical. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro

The blunt acknowledgment of the German Chancellor in the Reichstag, already quoted, is infinitely preferable to the disingenuous defenses of Germany’s ardent but sophistical apologists. The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia

She could make a sophistical defence of her morals to Betty Wales, but she understood perfectly what the faculty would think about them. Betty Wales Freshman

She would believe in the mysterious woman and leave him free to carry out any mission, however sophistical or chivalrous, he would. Old Crow

Why lay down principles so obvious, in some interpretations, and so manifestly sophistical in others? Logic, Inductive and Deductive

Burke attempted to brand with a new name that set of pert, petulant, sophistical sciolists, whose philosophy the French, since their revolutionary period, have distinguished as philosophism, and the philosophers themselves as philosophistes. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3

Because he has not met every point of your twisted, sophistical argument, you now think it will stand forever. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848

Most of the objections of Celsus are sophistical; a few are admitted difficulties; but the philosophical class of them will be seen to be the corollary from his general principle before explained. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Swift's arguments in the Drapier's Letters are sophistical, his statements grossly exaggerated, and his advice sometimes shameless, as, for instance, in recommending what is now but too well known as 'boycotting.' The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

A sophistical trick called the Sorites or Heap from the classical example of it was based upon this difficulty of drawing sharp lines of definition. Logic, Inductive and Deductive

There is but one maker of revolutions in France, and that is Paris,—idle, sophistical, disappointed, restless, evil-minded Paris. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865

This will save the labor of poring over Roman and English history, or of following the sophistical arguments of the blind leading the blind. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848

I am convinced of the strength of my cause, and superior to any little advantage from sophistical arrangements. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

Pope, no doubt in admiration of his friend's genius, had privately printed 1,500 copies of his Patriot King, one of Bolingbroke's ablest but most sophistical works. The Age of Pope (1700-1744)

The sophistical arguments of the friends of war are being answered by the logic of hard facts. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association

It seems to me nothing but a mania for verbal distinctions and sophistical special pleas can explain such a gratuitous self-sacrifice. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863

Your sophistical argument about their flight, &c. &c. touches not the main point. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848

The journals of New York, Chicago, and San Francisco are steadily gaining in circulation, in resourcefulness, and in public spirit, but they are, for the most part, unscrupulous in attack, sophistical, and passionate. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures

He who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion and will never be able to silence the contradictions or sophistical sciences which lead to an everlasting clamour. Thoughts on Art and Life

Surely it is much better to say at once, "I cannot explain this to you," than to attempt an imperfect or sophistical reply. Practical Education, Volume I

For sophistical reasoning it is a curiosity in legal decisions. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III

The self-justification she puts forward for her errors is sometimes sophistical, but not for that insincere. Famous Women: George Sand

Whether the reasoning of the Coromantee was correct or only sophistical, the facts were the same. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea

Geometers have, in all ages, been open to the imputation of endeavoring to prove the most general facts of the outward world by sophistical reasoning, in order to avoid appeals to the senses. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive

If his moral sentiments had been vigorous and active, they would have induced him, no doubt, either to invent sophistical evasions of such an inference, or to reject the doctrine from which it flows. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

Certain it is, however, that the surprise with which the sophistical dialogue, Eryxias, mentions the matter, is a proof how foreign it was to the Greeks. Principles Of Political Economy

In this little problem we attempted to show how, by sophistical reasoning, it may apparently be proved that the diagonal of a square is of precisely the same length as two of the sides. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems

This is the uniform representation of the sophistical spirit which is given by all the best writers who lived nearest to their times, and who are, therefore, to be presumed to have known them best. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

But this plea, in both cases, was sophistical. Ancient States and Empires

We are now prepared to see, in a clear light, the sophistical nature of the pretended demonstration of the scheme of necessity. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

But as we shall show later, his deductions were philosophical and sophistical rather than exegetical and Scriptural. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

He could not get her into a sophistical maze; she found her way through immediately; he could not puzzle her, for what she did not understand one day she had studied out by the next. The Old Helmet, Volume II

Nor need you listen to any sophistical objection of the impossibility of knowing when a people's help is needed, or when not. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

And so on, for a page or two, in a tone that some may think almost as sophistical as the reasoning by which the Skinflints might excuse to themselves their pharisaical behaviour. Studies in Literature and History

This argument, as we have seen, is altogether unsound and sophistical. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory

We are pressed hard with the sophistical objection that man is not converted without his knowledge and will. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

Let it not be claimed, even as a sophistical subterfuge, that the motive which brought the African here was mercenary, and that, therefore, his coming here was not justifiable. The Right of American Slavery

When logic is used to judge not analytically, but to judge synthetically of objects in general, it is called transcendental dialectic, which serves as a protection against sophistical fallacy. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics

This theory, explained and bolstered up with specious argument and sophistical evidence by the constable, rather staggered many people who believed in Levi. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World

What we are now facing is not slavery,—an institution that may be abolished by statute—but its offspring, Caste—a spirit pervasive, subtle, sophistical, tyrannic. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement

Considering Melanchthon's answer as insincere and sophistical, Flacius declared that, after having earnestly sought peace in a private way, he would now appeal to the Church. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church

It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin

No Tory prejudices and no sophistical arguments were ever able to silence in him the voice of common humanity. Dr. Johnson and His Circle

He had startled and angered Hosmer with his denunciation of Th�r�se’s sophistical guidance. At Fault

From there he sent forth a lengthy message to the Senate, recounting the accidental shipwreck, and telling how Agrippina had plotted against his life, recounting her crimes in deprecatory, sophistical phrase. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8

Incontinence, therefore, is a mark of a sophistical soul, endued with reason which cannot abide by what it knows to be right. § vii. Plutarch's Morals

Viewed in itself, viewed in the abstract, that principle is simply, undeniably true; and is only sophistical when it is carried out in practical matters at all. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin

Besides, this way of reasoning is merely a sophistical justification of the evils of the present system. The Conquest of Bread

Although philosophical in tendency he had not had sufficient experience in sophistical reasoning to enable him to disentangle the sinuosities of bad logic. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains

Because one who is eager to controvert, i.e. who is captious, generally, but not always, acts for a sophistical purpose and means to deceive. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

Perhaps there was something unsound in this reasoning, something sophistical; but a child p. 27is sometimes as ready as a grown-up person in finding excuses for doing that which he is inclined to. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)

The writer throws himself into the historic situation with the vivid freshness of a contemporary, and if the criticism is sophistical, at least the picture is admirably dramatic. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.

This reasoning may seem to many persons mere casuistry, mere sophistical juggling with words. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice

The other is by sophistical reasoning, and a more or less successful effort to throw dust in his own eyes. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains

It is thus opposed to all sophistical arguments, and partial or distorted reasonings, by which disputants strive to establish particular systems, instead of engaging in an honest and simple inquiry after truth. The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings

But I can't do that kind of thing, and I must stick to my little sophistical fantasies, or my bald reports of nature. The Coast of Bohemia

What you say about the quarrel in the United States is sophistical. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III

But this passage, as it happens, requires only a slightly sophistical application to be taken as a cue to a useful attitude in our present reading. Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning

Nor do we admit in such cases the sophistical argument, that the interests of public morality require the facts to be hushed up in order to avoid a scandal. The Essentials of Spirituality

Neither has the blustering of Buzfuz or his sophistical plaintiveness wholly gone by. Pickwickian Manners and Customs

It is not necessary to repeat Reginald's explanation, as it was shallow and sophistical. Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret

Good faith is essential to faith; and a sophistical mind is as immoral and irreligious as a depraved heart. Education and the Higher Life

That is the true ideal: cut in two, and destroyed, by the dismal inhuman monotheism of later sophistical speculation. The Substance of a Dream

He knew all the while that his arguments were sophistical and radically unsound; but he trusted that he was making them cogent. Major Vigoureux

It was a most elaborate, disingenuous, and sophistical argument against principles in which Mr. Russell himself concurred, and against the joint letters of the 14th December, 1814, to which he signed his name. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.

Perhaps there was something unsound in this reasoning, something sophistical; but a child is sometimes as ready as a grown-up person in finding excuses for doing that which he is inclined to do. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest

With that Lebensweisheit which Goethe long afterwards marked as his characteristic, he published in his review a notice of the burlesque, in which it is recommended as "a masterpiece of persiflage and of sophistical wit." The Youth of Goethe

Verena thought this very graceful, but she was not sure it was not rather sophistical; she would have liked to have Olive's judgement upon it. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II)

To dispute this is frivolous; to distinguish between his past self and his present is subtlety, and to ask for proof of their identity is seeking opportunity to be sophistical. Apologia pro Vita Sua

There was nothing new in his argument, but he unravelled with ingenious and subtle analysis many of the sophistical tissues of slaveholders. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams.

In the so-called Monarchian struggles of the 3rd century the disputants made use of these two Logoi, who formed excellent material for sophistical discussions. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)

What I may feel it my duty to do if you three remain obdurate will be purely without reference to your rather sophistical definition of criminality. Branded

Every asserted disqualification, on the ground of ignorance or preoccupation, is sophistical; because the same plea would disqualify four-fifths of the men too. The Friendships of Women

It would be strengthened by being deprived of those sophistical arguments which are commonly urged in its favor, and which give to its enemies an incalculable advantage. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

No; but studied exclusion from notice, or sophistical evasions and insulting vituperation. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

His faith was as simple and passionate as his dogmatic distinctions were often sophistical and arid. The Age of the Reformation

The newspaper gossip and sophistical reasoning to the effect that some Negroes have been apprehended for immoral conduct, and therefore all Negroes are immoral, would astonish all creation if applied to the white race. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro

How terribly that disappointment was felt! and what sinful, subtle, and sophistical thoughts crowded into our heads, burdened our hearts, and oppressed our spirits in those awful minutes! Dr. Dumany's Wife

The idea of God comes therefore within the regular compass of science; the attempt to exclude it is sophistical. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism

We submit that, considered as proofs, they are utterly sophistical. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Secondly, on the part of the process of reasoning; forasmuch as a sophistical syllogism is contrary to a dialectic or demonstrative syllogism. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition

Almost all of the heresies of this time arose among the Greeks of Asia or Egypt, peoples who were subtle, sophistical, and disputatious. History Of Ancient Civilization

And now, cousin, if this thing that I tell you seem but a sophistical fancy of your mind, I would be glad to know what moveth you so to think. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens

Thence arose the sophistical apologies for certain doctrines, apologies made with a good intention, but which trouble the sincerity of history. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism

But this conclusion of despair is a mistake as sophistical as it is injurious, as baseless in reality as it is natural in seeming. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Your objection is, I think, a mere sophistical evasion of the difficulty. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic

Dilipa has no trouble in piercing this sophistical argument, and again offers his own life, begging the lion to spare the body of his fame rather than the body of his flesh. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

Notwithstanding all their enormous defects, hard, egotistical, scoffing, cruel, narrow, subtle, and sophistical, the Jewish people are the authors of the finest movement of disinterested enthusiasm which history records. The Life of Jesus

I thought, and still think, that it is sophistical in tone, and tampers with one of the most sacred of our instincts. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College

Such an opposition between the two states is entirely sophistical, resulting from a profound misinterpretation of the truemoral relations connecting them. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

False they are, unsound, sophistical; but they are regular in their direction. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12)

It laughs derisively," replied Mistress Nutter; "and proceeds to use all those sophistical arguments, which we have so often heard, to pervert her mind, and overthrow her principles. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest

Political power and commercial monopoly are not the rights of men; and the rights to them derived from charters it is fallacious and sophistical to call "the chartered rights of men." The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12)

This is a very sophistical and ingenious defence. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College

Hence, too, Origen understands by the flies and frogs with which the Egyptians were smitten, the empty garrulousness of the dialecticians and their sophistical arguments. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities

That she should have tolerated them at all is a stain upon her character, as his sophistical plea for them is a stain upon Froude's. The Life of Froude

As for watered stock, I know all the sophistical arguments, and they are many, for capitalizing earning capacity. The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People

Is Adriana's argument that she is bound to share morally herself in the infidelity of her husband sophistical? Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies

All of this may have been a bit sophistical, but it was sound business from the publisher's point of view, and conveyed through the medium of Wittekind's unaffected urbanity it convinced Doria. Jaffery

All the efforts to substantiate consciousness, making it independent of extension—remember that Descartes opposed thought to extension—are but sophistical subtilties intended to establish the rationality of faith in the immortality of the soul. Tragic Sense Of Life

He avails himself remorselessly of all the pretexts for verbosity, for iteration, for sophistical invention, afforded by the cumbrous machinery of the law, and its proverbial delay. Robert Browning

It is hotly partisan, and sometimes sophistical and unfair. Montcalm and Wolfe

Tatham's letters, in which a man, with no natural gift for the pen, had developed a surprising amount of effective sarcasm, had all appeared in the local press; with Faversham's ingenious and sophistical replies. The Mating of Lydia

She followed him through all his sophistical reasonings with a keener reason. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time

That this may appear empty and sophistical well I know. Tragic Sense Of Life

What account can you give of the multitudes you have forced to comply, against their consciences, with your new sophistical politics, who, like new converts in France, sin because they cannot starve? Political Pamphlets

This is one of the sophistical puzzles noticed by Aldrich, but he is not happy in his attempt at a solution. Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850

This is the real truth which lies at the heart of what may be called the great sophistical monologues which Browning wrote in later years. Robert Browning

He was daring in speculation, and vigorous in sophistical argument; beautiful, dazzling, and possessed of magnetic power of fascination. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time

The strictures of Carlyle, Macaulay, Thackeray, and Lytton have been repeatedly denounced by the Jesuits, but even their shrewd, sophistical defences of their order afford ample justification for the attitude of their foes. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries

He justified this course by the rather sophistical reflection that in her he would encounter the most positive force to the contrary of the proposition he had just received. The Rules of the Game

Antonyms: guilelessness, candor, disillusionment, fair dealing, sincerity. deceptive, a. delusive, fallacious, deceitful, specious, insidious, sophistical. Putnam's Word Book

The Progressive watchword, "right makes might," sophistical as it seemed to Lassalle, appealed to the idealism of the German people, and the party was in the heyday of its success. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle

His was like the summing up of all this—a reflection of my own feelings and fancies—but reduced to an awful order and definiteness, and clothed with a sophistical form of argument. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4

They arrayed forth sophistical arguments without the wit of Sophists, and scholastic tortuosities minus the niceties of the Schoolmen. Bushido, the Soul of Japan

Does any Protestant reader feel disgust and horror, at the sophistical defences set up for the massacre of St. Bartholomew and other atrocities of the wicked Church of Rome? Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed

On the contrary, what makes this romance so peculiarly objectionable is that it is a master work of that kind of fiction which makes vice alluring under the sophistical veil of innocence. Primitive Love and Love-Stories

Indeed, to make a fortune on Christian lines is a thing which requires a somewhat sophistical defence. The Silent Isle

You're not the man to be led by the nose by a sophistical mumbler. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4

But there were those twenty "clever, wicked, sophistical, and immoral French books" that she read in eighteen-forty. The Three Brontës

Here, however, he was fated to discover that James had not for a moment been the dupe of his sophistical eloquence, ably as it had been exerted. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2

"The sciences cannot be known by logical and sophistical arguments, such as are commonly used, but only by mathematical demonstrations." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860

This resolution may be the determination of an instant, or the result of long-continued sophistical reasoning. Stories by American Authors, Volume 1

The phraseology of this resolution is as clumsy as its assertions are base and sophistical. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4

Here Berkeley cannot be acquitted of a certain sophistical play upon the term "idea," which, in fact, is ambiguous. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time

But a wrong bias was thus given, and the author's theory was thus rendered warped, disjointed, and sophistical from the very outset. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits

By its means, too, he can invent an imaginary antagonist, and convert him when he chooses by some absurdly sophistical argument. Intentions

By a few simple words She frequently overthrew the whole bulk of his sophistical arguments, and made him conscious how weak they were when opposed to Virtue and Truth. The Monk; a romance

"It would be possible to suggest a variety of objections, if one were of a sophistical turn of mind," he said at last, smilingly reflective. The Market-Place

Apart from his sophistical defence of Spanish colonial policy, Acosta deserves high praise as an acute and diligent observer whose numerous new and valuable data are set forth in a vivid style. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28

I am not fanciful, or sophistical, or irrational, and I know perfectly what I am about. Confidence

We comprehend in this case a hundred other experiences and observations, concerning the usual figure and members of that species of animal, without which this method of argument must be considered as fallacious and sophistical. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

With sophistical delicacy he veiled his own motives; and, instead of following the plain dictates of reason, he involved his understanding in that species of sentimental casuistry which confounds all principles of right and wrong. Tales and Novels — Volume 05

Essay then thy base and low-minded temptations, thy corrupt and sophistical reasonings, to tarnish the unsullied purity of her mind, and it is well. Imogen A Pastoral Romance

This sophistical reasoning had, without doubt, tempted the lad to commit this—this—Mortimer felt a reluctance to bestow the proper name upon Alan's act, but undoubtedly it was stealing. Thoroughbreds

On the first point Aeschines was almost certainly right: Demosthenes' defence is sophistical, and all that could really be said was that the rule had often been broken before. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2

Have those marvellous systems, or those sophistical inventions, by which they have been supported, carried conviction to his mind, reason into his conduct, virtue into his heart? The System of Nature, Volume 1

That is rather a sophistical bit of logic; so perfectly so that it ought to be theology. The Pagans

He never tried to comfort himself by sophistical reflections, but elevated thoughts were always his chief consolation. Sketches from Concord and Appledore

Even Porter turned half about in his chair, and gazed with a touch of wonderment at the battered young man who had substituted common sense for sophistical reasoning. Thoroughbreds

And yet with all this, you have a double-distilled and often sophistical refinement: just as savages are by no means simple. Amiel's Journal

Talkative replies, "You lie at a catch, I perceive,"—meaning that he is sophistical. A Study of Hawthorne

But after all, man, can't you see," he cried in protest at my worldly and sophistical arguments, "that I've lost one of the most precious things in the world? The Mountebank

In our story a penniless, unscrupulous hero finds a centavo, and by means of sophistical arguments with foolish persons makes more and more profitable exchanges until he wins the hand of a princess. Filipino Popular Tales

He is not in my opinion guilty of such a sophistical and fantastic allegory as by that phrase of his to have meant the Begging Brothers. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3

At this point, the far-famed scholastic intellect, with its subtleties, its fine distinctions, its nice questions, its sophistical conclusions, reached its zenith. Life of Luther

I have answered all his sophistical arguments, have resisted all his temptations, and it has come to a life-and-death struggle between us. Fan : the story of a young girl's life

Bakkus's sophistical rhetoric against Andrew's steady common sense; and they had sharpened Andrew's wit. The Mountebank

But the love of life being permitted to operate, soon furnishes him with sophistical arguments, he believes it cannot be very dangerous to the soul, since Angelo, who is so wise, will venture it. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies

Another may not be wrong in his facts, but have a declamatory or sophistical vein in him, much to be guarded against. Friends in Council — First Series

My hosts answered questions on this subject with benignant ambiguity, and did not trouble to defend the divine apparition on the sophistical lines laid down in Riccardi's "Santuari." Old Calabria

But why has Aristophanes personified the sophistical metaphysics by the venerable Socrates, who was himself a determined opponent of the Sophists? Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

The same tendency is shown in the efforts of Germany—grotesquely and tragically sophistical as they are— to justify her ever-expanding, freshly-invented atrocities. The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty

The second argument was even worse, as being still more sophistical. The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860

A very sound argument is here disguised in a false analogy, an inapplicable precedent, and a sophistical form. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.

They may have been sophistical, but they appealed purely to the intellect of those whom he addressed, without the rhetoric of his great antagonists. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders

With infinite cleverness and inexhaustible flow of wit, he has exposed the sophistical subtilty, the rhetorical and philosophical pretensions, the immoral and seductive effeminacy, and the excitations to undisguised sensuality of Euripides. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

It is false, and the reasoning by which it is supported involves the most sophistical of fallacies. The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty

And it was taken under the sophistical plea that it belonged to the nation. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen

They went through the forms of trial, hoping to extort from the Maid some damaging confessions, or to entangle her with their sophistical and artful questions. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women

His premises were wrong, and his arguments would necessarily be sophistical and fall to the ground. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders

The defence of Helen is about as entertaining as Isocrates' sophistical eulogium of her. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

Cromwell put forth no such sophistical pleas as those revolutionists who robbed the French clergy,--that their property belonged to the nation. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06 Renaissance and Reformation

No brilliancy in sophistical pleadings can make men long prefer what is new to that which is true. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 05 The Middle Ages

But those false, sophistical ideas which early entered into monastic life, and which perverted the Christianity of the Middle Ages, presented a powerful barrier against the instincts of nature and the ordinances of God. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women

Bishop Warburton seizes on the silence of Moses respecting a future state to prove, by a learned yet sophistical argument, his divine legation, because he ignored what so essentially entered into the religion of Egypt. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets

His sayings had such a lofty, hidden wisdom that very few people understood him: his utterances seemed either paradoxical, or unintelligible, or sophistical. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations

First, the German view, that England is responsible for the war because she did not prevent Russia from entering upon it, I regard as childish, if it is not simply sophistical. The European Anarchy

Briefly, perverse obstinacy is more easily quelled, petulant impudence is sooner dashed, sophistical captiousness is more safely eluded, sceptical wantonness is more surely confounded in this than in the simple way of discourse. Sermons on Evil-Speaking

Moreover, under the influence of sophistical rhetoric, preoccupied with style, poetic and rhetoric practiced the same rhetorical artifices. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism

In early life he studied in the rhetorical and sophistical schools of his native city; and he seems to have taken some part in the political agitations of the period. Mosaics of Grecian History

And possession, commonly reputed to be nine points of the law, more than made up for the lack of that element in Mr. Attorney-General's sophistical reasoning. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

If American ministers and Christians could see through their sophistical spider-webs, with what wonder, pity, and contempt they would regard their own vacillating condition! Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe

He was the least superstitious and also the least sophistical of men. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography

Often he had found the theologians quibbling and sophistical, more anxious to "evade adverse reasonings" and establish foregone conclusions than to arrive at the truth. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649

That the other side reverses this colouring does not trouble him: it is merely due to the aforesaid sophistical faculty of proving black white. Without Prejudice

He had a penetrating intelligence; and few men attempted, after their first sophistical statements, to impose upon him: he sent them away unhappy. At the Sign of the Eagle

In the presence of the priests of his own race Jesus is as indefinite and sophistical as he is before the Roman Pilate. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth?

But in his rude and more natural condition, if you are pleased to call such a condition natural, this answer would be rejected as perfectly unintelligible and sophistical. A Treatise of Human Nature

As to boldly confessing it, I persuaded myself into a sophistical conviction that such a course could do no good, but might do much harm. Basil

To say at what point words become or cease to be literature is a problem similar in kind to the sophistical Greek puzzle of saying at what point the few become many. Without Prejudice

Which was all sophistical and nonsensical; and she knew it, for there was a mischievous little gleam in her eye as she spoke. The Fortunate Youth

But such twisting of words is a mere sophistical subterfuge, to avoid a difficult question, by modifying its meaning to suit our own convenience. The Critique of Pure Reason

Accordingly we shall find upon examination, that every demonstration, which has been produced for the necessity of a cause, is fallacious and sophistical. A Treatise of Human Nature

Your sophistical exposition of the words of our princess is entirely thrown away. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends

In both reports the summing up of the judge was moderate in expression, but leaned against the prisoner on every point, and corrected the sophistical reasoning of his counsel very sensibly. Foul Play

These sophistical confidences of his were nothing but Rousseau at second hand. Poor Miss Finch

In this cosmological argument are assembled so many sophistical propositions that speculative reason seems to have exerted in it all her dialectical skill to produce a transcendental illusion of the most extreme character. The Critique of Pure Reason

"You always were good at a sophistical sneer, but vile language has nothing to do with what I was talking about." To-morrow?

Those arguments were partly solid and partly sophistical. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

And you won't mind my repeating it—I was a mite of a girl—I said, 'Isn't that rather sophistical, papa?' That Fortune

The oracle also of Themistocles, by which he persuaded the Athenians to quit their town, and in a naval fight defeated the barbarous Xerxes, was a sophistical fiction. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies

If we employ our reason not merely in the application of the principles of the understanding to objects of experience, but venture with it beyond these boundaries, there arise certain sophistical propositions or theorems. The Critique of Pure Reason

This disgraceful breach of faith he had made more disgraceful by paltry tricks and sophistical excuses which would have become a Jesuit better than a gentleman and a soldier. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

I have seen him waiting patiently for larger boys on the way to school, and by artful and sophistical practices inducing them to play truant. Urban Sketches

Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: If the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty: if they are quiet, they do not want liberty. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4

His verse is not in all places equally transparent; by the side of his most beautiful thoughts stands at times some allegorical conceit or some sophistical trick of logic, altogether foreign to our present taste. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Your leading abolitionists are as much affected by satanophany as your leading confederates, nor are they one whit more philosophical or less sophistical. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny

No," she said, making one of those sophistical jokes with which women parry unanswerable arguments, "I had disarmed him. The Chouans

They are like the rest, clever, wicked, sophistical, and immoral. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1

STRANGER: Then why has the sophistical art such a mysterious power? Sophist

Yet he too employs a similar sophistical skill in overturning every conceivable theory of knowledge. Theaetetus

Now, human society, when it copies the Divine essence and nature either in the distinction of persons alone, or in the unity alone, is sophistical, and wants the principle of all life and reality. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny

The false course she had taken through sophistical cowardice appalled the girl; she was lost. The Egoist

The thief does not argue out questions of property, of inheritance, and social responsibility, in sophistical books; he absolutely ignores them. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

Truly characteristic of Socrates is another point in his answer, which may also be regarded as sophistical. Apology

This is a sophistical puzzle, which, as Socrates remarks, saves a great deal of trouble to him who accepts it. Meno

It is supremely sophistical, and its success is death; for the universe in its constitution is supremely logical, and man, individually and socially, is rational. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny

First, passionate love is overthrown by the sophistical or interested, and then both yield to that higher view of love which is afterwards revealed to us. Phaedrus

Your husband's infidelity had shaken his hold on your respect for him and your sympathy with him, and had so left you without your natural safeguard against Mrs. Presty's sophistical reasoning and bad example. The Evil Genius

Socrates first of all intimates to Hermogenes that his view of language is only a part of a sophistical whole, and ultimately tends to abolish the distinction between truth and falsehood. Cratylus

He has no sophistical notions about love, which is brought back by him to its common-sense meaning of love between intelligent beings. Symposium

The two strangers are not serious; there are jests at the mysteries which precede the enthronement, and he is being initiated into the mysteries of the sophistical ritual. Euthydemus

He saw that she was young, and, at the first glance, was deceived by a sophistical prettiness of her face, which waned before a more judicious scrutiny. Whirligigs

He is remarkable for the good temper which he exhibits throughout the discussion under the trying and often sophistical cross-examination of Socrates. Protagoras

Between these two extremes, which have both of them a sophistical character, the view of Socrates is introduced, which is in a manner the union of the two. Cratylus

The parlor floor of one side is gay with the wraps and head-gear of a modiste; the other is lugubrious with the sophistical promises and grisly display of a painless dentist. Options

The philosophy which in the first and second generation was a great and inspiring effort of reflection, in the third becomes sophistical, verbal, eristic. Euthydemus

But this again is set aside by a sophistical application of Homer: for temperance is good as well as noble, and Homer has declared that 'modesty is not good for a needy man.' Charmides

The sophistical papists assert that a person is able by natural strength to love God long before grace has entered his heart, and to perform works of real merit. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

Hermogenes is very ready to throw aside the sophistical tenet, and listens with a sort of half admiration, half belief, to the speculations of Socrates. Cratylus

Cromwell put forth no such sophistical pleas as those revolutionists who robbed the French clergy,—that their property belonged to the nation. Beacon Lights of History

No brilliancy in sophistical pleadings can make men long prefer what is NEW to that which is TRUE. Beacon Lights of History

Thus the sophistical fabric has been demolished, chiefly by appealing to the analogy of the arts. The Republic

It is for this reason that sophistical dialectic is possible. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students

Cratylus presses him with the old sophistical argument, that falsehood is saying that which is not, and therefore saying nothing;—you cannot utter the word which is not. Cratylus

With other thought, mark also the Abbe Maury: his broad bold face; mouth accurately primmed; full eyes, that ray out intelligence, falsehood,—the sort of sophistry which is astonished you should find it sophistical. The French Revolution

If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical—is false.” Jane Eyre

单词	sophistical
例句	sophistical “Sir, your wife is living: that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical—is false.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Raise eyebrow at claim that "all speech that is presented as logically valid is sophistical"; observe mildly that Groys's own writing is presented as logically valid. Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction choice 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z Their first college years were full of logic, mostly derived from Aristotle, who identified 14 main types of valid deduction and 13 key gambits of sophistical trickery. In Praise of ‘Rationality’ 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Supreme Court, which accepted New London’s sophistical argument that virtually erased the Constitution’s circumscription of government’s eminent- domain power. Opinion \| Hollywood’s newest action star: The Constitution’s taking clause 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The deeper mystery is why certain conservatives who were once Trump’s fiercest critics have become his most sophistical apologists. Opinion \| The Sleazy Case Against Mueller’s Probe 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z The spread of the sophistical argument that a “diversity of opinions” is the same as “diversity” is worrying. The Trump administration has an interesting definition of diversity \| Arwa Mahdawi 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z Though sometimes more sophistical than philosophical, more brilliant than profound, and betraying prejudices when he should elucidate principles, he was, upon the whole, not unworthy to be called "The Prince of Critics." Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Arguments of a like sophistical nature were always now vaguely occurring to him, and he took care not to reason them out, being conscious of the fallacy of them, yet cherishing them. A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Among others an able critic has thus summed up his impressions:— "Of the whole we will say briefly, that its premises are monstrous, its reasoning sophistical, its conclusions absurd, and its spirit diabolic." Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The sophistical arguer in “Fifine” feels this same power of music to express thoughts not to be made palpable in any other manner. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z He never made a sophistical argument in his life, and never could make one. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z This is the reason why almost all ethical teachers, whether philosophical or religious, condemn suicide, although they themselves can only give far-fetched sophistical reasons for their opinion. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Those arguments were partly solid and some partly sophistical. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z And therefore the Fathers of Trent, as you all know, whatever sophistical objections may be raised, did not pass their decrees on dogmatic questions by numerical majorities, but with moral unanimity. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z In one of these he points out the sophistical character of the indictment in declaring the "Age of Reason" a blasphemous work, tending to bring in contempt the holy scriptures. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z To ascribe mere volition to man seems, it has been justly said, sophistical. Theology and the Social Consciousness A Study of the Relations of the Social Consciousness to Theology (2nd ed.) 2011-09-27T02:00:21.343Z Thou hast bound many eyes In sophistical sleep, But the angel that flies Will thy vigilance keep? Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.103Z Because it leads you into sophistical by-ways; your tendency to mysticism gives an apparently logical foundation and thereby strengthens you the more in this dangerous course. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z The few clear-headed and impartial planters who, proof against Rody’s sophistical speeches, were assailed by him in a different manner—by specious promises of enlarged possessions, or by matter-of-fact appeals for the advancement of civilisation. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z If you have not the time—O sophistical Sybarite! inclination—send him to those who, as you know, will inquire. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z It only serves as a veil, behind which is concealed those sophistical tricks, by which both the performer and the spectator are deceived. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Geometers have, in all ages, been open to the imputation of endeavouring to prove the most general facts of the outward world by sophistical reasoning, in order to avoid appeals to the senses. A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II 2011-03-01T03:00:40.557Z But the arguments by which he persuades himself that he is not bound are not honest, since he has recourse to what he knows are hair-splitting distinctions, quibbles and sophistical reasonings. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z The argument was sophistical enough, but for two reasons it carried conviction. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z Mandeville's sophistical dictum was blindly accepted, and trifles light as air gave rise to the conventional hostile meeting. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z “Duns” or “Dunsman” was a name early applied by their opponents to the followers of Duns Scotus, the Scotists, and hence was equivalent to one devoted to sophistical distinctions and subtleties. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Never for a moment was positive religion entangled in a sophistical optimism. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z At the same time, there are three species of syllogism, scientific, dialectical and eristical or sophistical; and in consequence there are different ways of acquiring premisses. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The science, falsely so called, of the several theological schools, their groundless distinctions and sophistical demonstrations, he regarded as the great source of heresy and scepticism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" We can hardly reckon a man in the right, who is so by accident, and through sophistical reasoning. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Now it is obvious that the whole tendency of this sophistical teaching is destructive and anti-social. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy With other thought, mark also the Abbé Maury; his broad bold face, mouth accurately primmed, full eyes, that ray out intelligence, falsehood,—the sort of sophistry which is astonished you should find it sophistical. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Fleda drew a long breath: she saw in the poor woman something much better than sophistical ease, a crude elation that was a comparatively simple state to deal with. The Spoils of Poynton Here everything brilliant was cherished, everything which caught public attention: Latin declamation and disputation, poetry, the comedy of the schools, sophistical philosophy and bombastical oratory, in short all empty show which impressed the ignorant. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle From the obsolete sense of a catching at any possible plea or objection comes the adjective “captious,” i.e. sophistical or fault-finding. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" His art has been described as devoid of the idealism of theirs, Euripides. his genius as rhetorical rather than poetical, his morality as that of a sophistical wit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" "Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance." The Bible Story The arguments of the Orl�ans advocates were far superior to the shallow, sophistical, utterly shameless harangues which had been delivered in defence of Jean. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) The philosophy which it had inherited was one of dogmatism, sophistical in that it made its own syllogisms the final limit and bound of truth. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 So that, in fact, the Almighty, saying No when he should have said Yes, did not know what he meant, till such a sophistical blasphemer set him right! The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 The other is a systematic exposure of sophistical tricks, mostly verbal quibbles, whereby a delusive appearance of victory in debate may be obtained. Logic, Inductive and Deductive The savory ham was very appetizing, the Deacon was very hungry, and the argument was sophistical. Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro The blunt acknowledgment of the German Chancellor in the Reichstag, already quoted, is infinitely preferable to the disingenuous defenses of Germany’s ardent but sophistical apologists. The Evidence in the Case A Discussion of the Moral Responsibility for the War of 1914, as Disclosed by the Diplomatic Records of England, Germany, Russia She could make a sophistical defence of her morals to Betty Wales, but she understood perfectly what the faculty would think about them. Betty Wales Freshman She would believe in the mysterious woman and leave him free to carry out any mission, however sophistical or chivalrous, he would. Old Crow Why lay down principles so obvious, in some interpretations, and so manifestly sophistical in others? Logic, Inductive and Deductive Burke attempted to brand with a new name that set of pert, petulant, sophistical sciolists, whose philosophy the French, since their revolutionary period, have distinguished as philosophism, and the philosophers themselves as philosophistes. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Because he has not met every point of your twisted, sophistical argument, you now think it will stand forever. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 Most of the objections of Celsus are sophistical; a few are admitted difficulties; but the philosophical class of them will be seen to be the corollary from his general principle before explained. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Swift's arguments in the Drapier's Letters are sophistical, his statements grossly exaggerated, and his advice sometimes shameless, as, for instance, in recommending what is now but too well known as 'boycotting.' The Age of Pope (1700-1744) A sophistical trick called the Sorites or Heap from the classical example of it was based upon this difficulty of drawing sharp lines of definition. Logic, Inductive and Deductive There is but one maker of revolutions in France, and that is Paris,—idle, sophistical, disappointed, restless, evil-minded Paris. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 This will save the labor of poring over Roman and English history, or of following the sophistical arguments of the blind leading the blind. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 I am convinced of the strength of my cause, and superior to any little advantage from sophistical arrangements. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Pope, no doubt in admiration of his friend's genius, had privately printed 1,500 copies of his Patriot King, one of Bolingbroke's ablest but most sophistical works. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The sophistical arguments of the friends of war are being answered by the logic of hard facts. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association It seems to me nothing but a mania for verbal distinctions and sophistical special pleas can explain such a gratuitous self-sacrifice. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 Your sophistical argument about their flight, &c. &c. touches not the main point. A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 The journals of New York, Chicago, and San Francisco are steadily gaining in circulation, in resourcefulness, and in public spirit, but they are, for the most part, unscrupulous in attack, sophistical, and passionate. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures He who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion and will never be able to silence the contradictions or sophistical sciences which lead to an everlasting clamour. Thoughts on Art and Life Surely it is much better to say at once, "I cannot explain this to you," than to attempt an imperfect or sophistical reply. Practical Education, Volume I For sophistical reasoning it is a curiosity in legal decisions. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III The self-justification she puts forward for her errors is sometimes sophistical, but not for that insincere. Famous Women: George Sand Whether the reasoning of the Coromantee was correct or only sophistical, the facts were the same. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Geometers have, in all ages, been open to the imputation of endeavoring to prove the most general facts of the outward world by sophistical reasoning, in order to avoid appeals to the senses. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive If his moral sentiments had been vigorous and active, they would have induced him, no doubt, either to invent sophistical evasions of such an inference, or to reject the doctrine from which it flows. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory Certain it is, however, that the surprise with which the sophistical dialogue, Eryxias, mentions the matter, is a proof how foreign it was to the Greeks. Principles Of Political Economy In this little problem we attempted to show how, by sophistical reasoning, it may apparently be proved that the diagonal of a square is of precisely the same length as two of the sides. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems This is the uniform representation of the sophistical spirit which is given by all the best writers who lived nearest to their times, and who are, therefore, to be presumed to have known them best. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles But this plea, in both cases, was sophistical. Ancient States and Empires We are now prepared to see, in a clear light, the sophistical nature of the pretended demonstration of the scheme of necessity. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory But as we shall show later, his deductions were philosophical and sophistical rather than exegetical and Scriptural. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church He could not get her into a sophistical maze; she found her way through immediately; he could not puzzle her, for what she did not understand one day she had studied out by the next. The Old Helmet, Volume II Nor need you listen to any sophistical objection of the impossibility of knowing when a people's help is needed, or when not. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing And so on, for a page or two, in a tone that some may think almost as sophistical as the reasoning by which the Skinflints might excuse to themselves their pharisaical behaviour. Studies in Literature and History This argument, as we have seen, is altogether unsound and sophistical. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory We are pressed hard with the sophistical objection that man is not converted without his knowledge and will. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Let it not be claimed, even as a sophistical subterfuge, that the motive which brought the African here was mercenary, and that, therefore, his coming here was not justifiable. The Right of American Slavery When logic is used to judge not analytically, but to judge synthetically of objects in general, it is called transcendental dialectic, which serves as a protection against sophistical fallacy. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics This theory, explained and bolstered up with specious argument and sophistical evidence by the constable, rather staggered many people who believed in Levi. Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World What we are now facing is not slavery,—an institution that may be abolished by statute—but its offspring, Caste—a spirit pervasive, subtle, sophistical, tyrannic. The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement Considering Melanchthon's answer as insincere and sophistical, Flacius declared that, after having earnestly sought peace in a private way, he would now appeal to the Church. Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church It teaches him to see things as they are, to go right to the point, to disentangle a skein of thought, to detect what is sophistical, and to discard what is irrelevant. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin No Tory prejudices and no sophistical arguments were ever able to silence in him the voice of common humanity. Dr. Johnson and His Circle He had startled and angered Hosmer with his denunciation of Th�r�se’s sophistical guidance. At Fault From there he sent forth a lengthy message to the Senate, recounting the accidental shipwreck, and telling how Agrippina had plotted against his life, recounting her crimes in deprecatory, sophistical phrase. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 Incontinence, therefore, is a mark of a sophistical soul, endued with reason which cannot abide by what it knows to be right. § vii. Plutarch's Morals Viewed in itself, viewed in the abstract, that principle is simply, undeniably true; and is only sophistical when it is carried out in practical matters at all. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Besides, this way of reasoning is merely a sophistical justification of the evils of the present system. The Conquest of Bread Although philosophical in tendency he had not had sufficient experience in sophistical reasoning to enable him to disentangle the sinuosities of bad logic. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains Because one who is eager to controvert, i.e. who is captious, generally, but not always, acts for a sophistical purpose and means to deceive. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Perhaps there was something unsound in this reasoning, something sophistical; but a child p. 27is sometimes as ready as a grown-up person in finding excuses for doing that which he is inclined to. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) The writer throws himself into the historic situation with the vivid freshness of a contemporary, and if the criticism is sophistical, at least the picture is admirably dramatic. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. This reasoning may seem to many persons mere casuistry, mere sophistical juggling with words. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice The other is by sophistical reasoning, and a more or less successful effort to throw dust in his own eyes. The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains It is thus opposed to all sophistical arguments, and partial or distorted reasonings, by which disputants strive to establish particular systems, instead of engaging in an honest and simple inquiry after truth. The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings But I can't do that kind of thing, and I must stick to my little sophistical fantasies, or my bald reports of nature. The Coast of Bohemia What you say about the quarrel in the United States is sophistical. The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III But this passage, as it happens, requires only a slightly sophistical application to be taken as a cue to a useful attitude in our present reading. Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787) A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by William Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by George Canning Nor do we admit in such cases the sophistical argument, that the interests of public morality require the facts to be hushed up in order to avoid a scandal. The Essentials of Spirituality Neither has the blustering of Buzfuz or his sophistical plaintiveness wholly gone by. Pickwickian Manners and Customs It is not necessary to repeat Reginald's explanation, as it was shallow and sophistical. Five Hundred Dollars or, Jacob Marlowe's Secret Good faith is essential to faith; and a sophistical mind is as immoral and irreligious as a depraved heart. Education and the Higher Life That is the true ideal: cut in two, and destroyed, by the dismal inhuman monotheism of later sophistical speculation. The Substance of a Dream He knew all the while that his arguments were sophistical and radically unsound; but he trusted that he was making them cogent. Major Vigoureux It was a most elaborate, disingenuous, and sophistical argument against principles in which Mr. Russell himself concurred, and against the joint letters of the 14th December, 1814, to which he signed his name. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. Perhaps there was something unsound in this reasoning, something sophistical; but a child is sometimes as ready as a grown-up person in finding excuses for doing that which he is inclined to do. Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest With that Lebensweisheit which Goethe long afterwards marked as his characteristic, he published in his review a notice of the burlesque, in which it is recommended as "a masterpiece of persiflage and of sophistical wit." The Youth of Goethe Verena thought this very graceful, but she was not sure it was not rather sophistical; she would have liked to have Olive's judgement upon it. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) To dispute this is frivolous; to distinguish between his past self and his present is subtlety, and to ask for proof of their identity is seeking opportunity to be sophistical. Apologia pro Vita Sua There was nothing new in his argument, but he unravelled with ingenious and subtle analysis many of the sophistical tissues of slaveholders. Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams. In the so-called Monarchian struggles of the 3rd century the disputants made use of these two Logoi, who formed excellent material for sophistical discussions. History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) What I may feel it my duty to do if you three remain obdurate will be purely without reference to your rather sophistical definition of criminality. Branded Every asserted disqualification, on the ground of ignorance or preoccupation, is sophistical; because the same plea would disqualify four-fifths of the men too. The Friendships of Women It would be strengthened by being deprived of those sophistical arguments which are commonly urged in its favor, and which give to its enemies an incalculable advantage. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy No; but studied exclusion from notice, or sophistical evasions and insulting vituperation. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life His faith was as simple and passionate as his dogmatic distinctions were often sophistical and arid. The Age of the Reformation The newspaper gossip and sophistical reasoning to the effect that some Negroes have been apprehended for immoral conduct, and therefore all Negroes are immoral, would astonish all creation if applied to the white race. Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro How terribly that disappointment was felt! and what sinful, subtle, and sophistical thoughts crowded into our heads, burdened our hearts, and oppressed our spirits in those awful minutes! Dr. Dumany's Wife The idea of God comes therefore within the regular compass of science; the attempt to exclude it is sophistical. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism We submit that, considered as proofs, they are utterly sophistical. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Secondly, on the part of the process of reasoning; forasmuch as a sophistical syllogism is contrary to a dialectic or demonstrative syllogism. Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition Almost all of the heresies of this time arose among the Greeks of Asia or Egypt, peoples who were subtle, sophistical, and disputatious. History Of Ancient Civilization And now, cousin, if this thing that I tell you seem but a sophistical fancy of your mind, I would be glad to know what moveth you so to think. Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens Thence arose the sophistical apologies for certain doctrines, apologies made with a good intention, but which trouble the sincerity of history. The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism But this conclusion of despair is a mistake as sophistical as it is injurious, as baseless in reality as it is natural in seeming. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Your objection is, I think, a mere sophistical evasion of the difficulty. The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Dilipa has no trouble in piercing this sophistical argument, and again offers his own life, begging the lion to spare the body of his fame rather than the body of his flesh. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works Notwithstanding all their enormous defects, hard, egotistical, scoffing, cruel, narrow, subtle, and sophistical, the Jewish people are the authors of the finest movement of disinterested enthusiasm which history records. The Life of Jesus I thought, and still think, that it is sophistical in tone, and tampers with one of the most sacred of our instincts. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Such an opposition between the two states is entirely sophistical, resulting from a profound misinterpretation of the truemoral relations connecting them. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life False they are, unsound, sophistical; but they are regular in their direction. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) It laughs derisively," replied Mistress Nutter; "and proceeds to use all those sophistical arguments, which we have so often heard, to pervert her mind, and overthrow her principles. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest Political power and commercial monopoly are not the rights of men; and the rights to them derived from charters it is fallacious and sophistical to call "the chartered rights of men." The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) This is a very sophistical and ingenious defence. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College Hence, too, Origen understands by the flies and frogs with which the Egyptians were smitten, the empty garrulousness of the dialecticians and their sophistical arguments. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities That she should have tolerated them at all is a stain upon her character, as his sophistical plea for them is a stain upon Froude's. The Life of Froude As for watered stock, I know all the sophistical arguments, and they are many, for capitalizing earning capacity. The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People Is Adriana's argument that she is bound to share morally herself in the infidelity of her husband sophistical? Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies All of this may have been a bit sophistical, but it was sound business from the publisher's point of view, and conveyed through the medium of Wittekind's unaffected urbanity it convinced Doria. Jaffery All the efforts to substantiate consciousness, making it independent of extension—remember that Descartes opposed thought to extension—are but sophistical subtilties intended to establish the rationality of faith in the immortality of the soul. Tragic Sense Of Life He avails himself remorselessly of all the pretexts for verbosity, for iteration, for sophistical invention, afforded by the cumbrous machinery of the law, and its proverbial delay. Robert Browning It is hotly partisan, and sometimes sophistical and unfair. Montcalm and Wolfe Tatham's letters, in which a man, with no natural gift for the pen, had developed a surprising amount of effective sarcasm, had all appeared in the local press; with Faversham's ingenious and sophistical replies. The Mating of Lydia She followed him through all his sophistical reasonings with a keener reason. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time That this may appear empty and sophistical well I know. Tragic Sense Of Life What account can you give of the multitudes you have forced to comply, against their consciences, with your new sophistical politics, who, like new converts in France, sin because they cannot starve? Political Pamphlets This is one of the sophistical puzzles noticed by Aldrich, but he is not happy in his attempt at a solution. Notes and Queries, Number 42, August 17, 1850 This is the real truth which lies at the heart of what may be called the great sophistical monologues which Browning wrote in later years. Robert Browning He was daring in speculation, and vigorous in sophistical argument; beautiful, dazzling, and possessed of magnetic power of fascination. Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time The strictures of Carlyle, Macaulay, Thackeray, and Lytton have been repeatedly denounced by the Jesuits, but even their shrewd, sophistical defences of their order afford ample justification for the attitude of their foes. A Short History of Monks and Monasteries He justified this course by the rather sophistical reflection that in her he would encounter the most positive force to the contrary of the proposition he had just received. The Rules of the Game Antonyms: guilelessness, candor, disillusionment, fair dealing, sincerity. deceptive, a. delusive, fallacious, deceitful, specious, insidious, sophistical. Putnam's Word Book The Progressive watchword, "right makes might," sophistical as it seemed to Lassalle, appealed to the idealism of the German people, and the party was in the heyday of its success. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle His was like the summing up of all this—a reflection of my own feelings and fancies—but reduced to an awful order and definiteness, and clothed with a sophistical form of argument. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 They arrayed forth sophistical arguments without the wit of Sophists, and scholastic tortuosities minus the niceties of the Schoolmen. Bushido, the Soul of Japan Does any Protestant reader feel disgust and horror, at the sophistical defences set up for the massacre of St. Bartholomew and other atrocities of the wicked Church of Rome? Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed On the contrary, what makes this romance so peculiarly objectionable is that it is a master work of that kind of fiction which makes vice alluring under the sophistical veil of innocence. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Indeed, to make a fortune on Christian lines is a thing which requires a somewhat sophistical defence. The Silent Isle You're not the man to be led by the nose by a sophistical mumbler. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 But there were those twenty "clever, wicked, sophistical, and immoral French books" that she read in eighteen-forty. The Three Brontës Here, however, he was fated to discover that James had not for a moment been the dupe of his sophistical eloquence, ably as it had been exerted. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 2 "The sciences cannot be known by logical and sophistical arguments, such as are commonly used, but only by mathematical demonstrations." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 This resolution may be the determination of an instant, or the result of long-continued sophistical reasoning. Stories by American Authors, Volume 1 The phraseology of this resolution is as clumsy as its assertions are base and sophistical. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 Here Berkeley cannot be acquitted of a certain sophistical play upon the term "idea," which, in fact, is ambiguous. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time But a wrong bias was thus given, and the author's theory was thus rendered warped, disjointed, and sophistical from the very outset. The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits By its means, too, he can invent an imaginary antagonist, and convert him when he chooses by some absurdly sophistical argument. Intentions By a few simple words She frequently overthrew the whole bulk of his sophistical arguments, and made him conscious how weak they were when opposed to Virtue and Truth. The Monk; a romance "It would be possible to suggest a variety of objections, if one were of a sophistical turn of mind," he said at last, smilingly reflective. The Market-Place Apart from his sophistical defence of Spanish colonial policy, Acosta deserves high praise as an acute and diligent observer whose numerous new and valuable data are set forth in a vivid style. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 I am not fanciful, or sophistical, or irrational, and I know perfectly what I am about. Confidence We comprehend in this case a hundred other experiences and observations, concerning the usual figure and members of that species of animal, without which this method of argument must be considered as fallacious and sophistical. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding With sophistical delicacy he veiled his own motives; and, instead of following the plain dictates of reason, he involved his understanding in that species of sentimental casuistry which confounds all principles of right and wrong. Tales and Novels — Volume 05 Essay then thy base and low-minded temptations, thy corrupt and sophistical reasonings, to tarnish the unsullied purity of her mind, and it is well. Imogen A Pastoral Romance This sophistical reasoning had, without doubt, tempted the lad to commit this—this—Mortimer felt a reluctance to bestow the proper name upon Alan's act, but undoubtedly it was stealing. Thoroughbreds On the first point Aeschines was almost certainly right: Demosthenes' defence is sophistical, and all that could really be said was that the rule had often been broken before. The Public Orations of Demosthenes, volume 2 Have those marvellous systems, or those sophistical inventions, by which they have been supported, carried conviction to his mind, reason into his conduct, virtue into his heart? The System of Nature, Volume 1 That is rather a sophistical bit of logic; so perfectly so that it ought to be theology. The Pagans He never tried to comfort himself by sophistical reflections, but elevated thoughts were always his chief consolation. Sketches from Concord and Appledore Even Porter turned half about in his chair, and gazed with a touch of wonderment at the battered young man who had substituted common sense for sophistical reasoning. Thoroughbreds And yet with all this, you have a double-distilled and often sophistical refinement: just as savages are by no means simple. Amiel's Journal Talkative replies, "You lie at a catch, I perceive,"—meaning that he is sophistical. A Study of Hawthorne But after all, man, can't you see," he cried in protest at my worldly and sophistical arguments, "that I've lost one of the most precious things in the world? The Mountebank In our story a penniless, unscrupulous hero finds a centavo, and by means of sophistical arguments with foolish persons makes more and more profitable exchanges until he wins the hand of a princess. Filipino Popular Tales He is not in my opinion guilty of such a sophistical and fantastic allegory as by that phrase of his to have meant the Begging Brothers. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 At this point, the far-famed scholastic intellect, with its subtleties, its fine distinctions, its nice questions, its sophistical conclusions, reached its zenith. Life of Luther I have answered all his sophistical arguments, have resisted all his temptations, and it has come to a life-and-death struggle between us. Fan : the story of a young girl's life Bakkus's sophistical rhetoric against Andrew's steady common sense; and they had sharpened Andrew's wit. The Mountebank But the love of life being permitted to operate, soon furnishes him with sophistical arguments, he believes it cannot be very dangerous to the soul, since Angelo, who is so wise, will venture it. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Another may not be wrong in his facts, but have a declamatory or sophistical vein in him, much to be guarded against. Friends in Council — First Series My hosts answered questions on this subject with benignant ambiguity, and did not trouble to defend the divine apparition on the sophistical lines laid down in Riccardi's "Santuari." Old Calabria But why has Aristophanes personified the sophistical metaphysics by the venerable Socrates, who was himself a determined opponent of the Sophists? Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature The same tendency is shown in the efforts of Germany—grotesquely and tragically sophistical as they are— to justify her ever-expanding, freshly-invented atrocities. The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty The second argument was even worse, as being still more sophistical. The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 A very sound argument is here disguised in a false analogy, an inapplicable precedent, and a sophistical form. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. They may have been sophistical, but they appealed purely to the intellect of those whom he addressed, without the rhetoric of his great antagonists. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders With infinite cleverness and inexhaustible flow of wit, he has exposed the sophistical subtilty, the rhetorical and philosophical pretensions, the immoral and seductive effeminacy, and the excitations to undisguised sensuality of Euripides. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature It is false, and the reasoning by which it is supported involves the most sophistical of fallacies. The Soul of Democracy The Philosophy of the World War in Relation to Human Liberty And it was taken under the sophistical plea that it belonged to the nation. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 09 European Statesmen They went through the forms of trial, hoping to extort from the Maid some damaging confessions, or to entangle her with their sophistical and artful questions. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women His premises were wrong, and his arguments would necessarily be sophistical and fall to the ground. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 12 American Leaders The defence of Helen is about as entertaining as Isocrates' sophistical eulogium of her. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Cromwell put forth no such sophistical pleas as those revolutionists who robbed the French clergy,--that their property belonged to the nation. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06 Renaissance and Reformation No brilliancy in sophistical pleadings can make men long prefer what is new to that which is true. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 05 The Middle Ages But those false, sophistical ideas which early entered into monastic life, and which perverted the Christianity of the Middle Ages, presented a powerful barrier against the instincts of nature and the ordinances of God. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 07 Great Women Bishop Warburton seizes on the silence of Moses respecting a future state to prove, by a learned yet sophistical argument, his divine legation, because he ignored what so essentially entered into the religion of Egypt. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02 Jewish Heroes and Prophets His sayings had such a lofty, hidden wisdom that very few people understood him: his utterances seemed either paradoxical, or unintelligible, or sophistical. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01 The Old Pagan Civilizations First, the German view, that England is responsible for the war because she did not prevent Russia from entering upon it, I regard as childish, if it is not simply sophistical. The European Anarchy Briefly, perverse obstinacy is more easily quelled, petulant impudence is sooner dashed, sophistical captiousness is more safely eluded, sceptical wantonness is more surely confounded in this than in the simple way of discourse. Sermons on Evil-Speaking Moreover, under the influence of sophistical rhetoric, preoccupied with style, poetic and rhetoric practiced the same rhetorical artifices. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism In early life he studied in the rhetorical and sophistical schools of his native city; and he seems to have taken some part in the political agitations of the period. Mosaics of Grecian History And possession, commonly reputed to be nine points of the law, more than made up for the lack of that element in Mr. Attorney-General's sophistical reasoning. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore If American ministers and Christians could see through their sophistical spider-webs, with what wonder, pity, and contempt they would regard their own vacillating condition! Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe He was the least superstitious and also the least sophistical of men. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography Often he had found the theologians quibbling and sophistical, more anxious to "evade adverse reasonings" and establish foregone conclusions than to arrive at the truth. The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 That the other side reverses this colouring does not trouble him: it is merely due to the aforesaid sophistical faculty of proving black white. Without Prejudice He had a penetrating intelligence; and few men attempted, after their first sophistical statements, to impose upon him: he sent them away unhappy. At the Sign of the Eagle In the presence of the priests of his own race Jesus is as indefinite and sophistical as he is before the Roman Pilate. The Truth about Jesus : Is He a Myth? But in his rude and more natural condition, if you are pleased to call such a condition natural, this answer would be rejected as perfectly unintelligible and sophistical. A Treatise of Human Nature As to boldly confessing it, I persuaded myself into a sophistical conviction that such a course could do no good, but might do much harm. Basil To say at what point words become or cease to be literature is a problem similar in kind to the sophistical Greek puzzle of saying at what point the few become many. Without Prejudice Which was all sophistical and nonsensical; and she knew it, for there was a mischievous little gleam in her eye as she spoke. The Fortunate Youth But such twisting of words is a mere sophistical subterfuge, to avoid a difficult question, by modifying its meaning to suit our own convenience. The Critique of Pure Reason Accordingly we shall find upon examination, that every demonstration, which has been produced for the necessity of a cause, is fallacious and sophistical. A Treatise of Human Nature Your sophistical exposition of the words of our princess is entirely thrown away. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends In both reports the summing up of the judge was moderate in expression, but leaned against the prisoner on every point, and corrected the sophistical reasoning of his counsel very sensibly. Foul Play These sophistical confidences of his were nothing but Rousseau at second hand. Poor Miss Finch In this cosmological argument are assembled so many sophistical propositions that speculative reason seems to have exerted in it all her dialectical skill to produce a transcendental illusion of the most extreme character. The Critique of Pure Reason "You always were good at a sophistical sneer, but vile language has nothing to do with what I was talking about." To-morrow? Those arguments were partly solid and partly sophistical. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations And you won't mind my repeating it—I was a mite of a girl—I said, 'Isn't that rather sophistical, papa?' That Fortune The oracle also of Themistocles, by which he persuaded the Athenians to quit their town, and in a naval fight defeated the barbarous Xerxes, was a sophistical fiction. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies If we employ our reason not merely in the application of the principles of the understanding to objects of experience, but venture with it beyond these boundaries, there arise certain sophistical propositions or theorems. The Critique of Pure Reason This disgraceful breach of faith he had made more disgraceful by paltry tricks and sophistical excuses which would have become a Jesuit better than a gentleman and a soldier. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 I have seen him waiting patiently for larger boys on the way to school, and by artful and sophistical practices inducing them to play truant. Urban Sketches Half the logic of misgovernment lies in this one sophistical dilemma: If the people are turbulent, they are unfit for liberty: if they are quiet, they do not want liberty. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 His verse is not in all places equally transparent; by the side of his most beautiful thoughts stands at times some allegorical conceit or some sophistical trick of logic, altogether foreign to our present taste. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Your leading abolitionists are as much affected by satanophany as your leading confederates, nor are they one whit more philosophical or less sophistical. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny No," she said, making one of those sophistical jokes with which women parry unanswerable arguments, "I had disarmed him. The Chouans They are like the rest, clever, wicked, sophistical, and immoral. Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 STRANGER: Then why has the sophistical art such a mysterious power? Sophist Yet he too employs a similar sophistical skill in overturning every conceivable theory of knowledge. Theaetetus Now, human society, when it copies the Divine essence and nature either in the distinction of persons alone, or in the unity alone, is sophistical, and wants the principle of all life and reality. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny The false course she had taken through sophistical cowardice appalled the girl; she was lost. The Egoist The thief does not argue out questions of property, of inheritance, and social responsibility, in sophistical books; he absolutely ignores them. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life Truly characteristic of Socrates is another point in his answer, which may also be regarded as sophistical. Apology This is a sophistical puzzle, which, as Socrates remarks, saves a great deal of trouble to him who accepts it. Meno It is supremely sophistical, and its success is death; for the universe in its constitution is supremely logical, and man, individually and socially, is rational. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny First, passionate love is overthrown by the sophistical or interested, and then both yield to that higher view of love which is afterwards revealed to us. Phaedrus Your husband's infidelity had shaken his hold on your respect for him and your sympathy with him, and had so left you without your natural safeguard against Mrs. Presty's sophistical reasoning and bad example. The Evil Genius Socrates first of all intimates to Hermogenes that his view of language is only a part of a sophistical whole, and ultimately tends to abolish the distinction between truth and falsehood. Cratylus He has no sophistical notions about love, which is brought back by him to its common-sense meaning of love between intelligent beings. Symposium The two strangers are not serious; there are jests at the mysteries which precede the enthronement, and he is being initiated into the mysteries of the sophistical ritual. Euthydemus He saw that she was young, and, at the first glance, was deceived by a sophistical prettiness of her face, which waned before a more judicious scrutiny. Whirligigs He is remarkable for the good temper which he exhibits throughout the discussion under the trying and often sophistical cross-examination of Socrates. Protagoras Between these two extremes, which have both of them a sophistical character, the view of Socrates is introduced, which is in a manner the union of the two. Cratylus The parlor floor of one side is gay with the wraps and head-gear of a modiste; the other is lugubrious with the sophistical promises and grisly display of a painless dentist. Options The philosophy which in the first and second generation was a great and inspiring effort of reflection, in the third becomes sophistical, verbal, eristic. Euthydemus But this again is set aside by a sophistical application of Homer: for temperance is good as well as noble, and Homer has declared that 'modesty is not good for a needy man.' Charmides The sophistical papists assert that a person is able by natural strength to love God long before grace has entered his heart, and to perform works of real merit. Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians Hermogenes is very ready to throw aside the sophistical tenet, and listens with a sort of half admiration, half belief, to the speculations of Socrates. Cratylus Cromwell put forth no such sophistical pleas as those revolutionists who robbed the French clergy,—that their property belonged to the nation. Beacon Lights of History No brilliancy in sophistical pleadings can make men long prefer what is NEW to that which is TRUE. Beacon Lights of History Thus the sophistical fabric has been demolished, chiefly by appealing to the analogy of the arts. The Republic It is for this reason that sophistical dialectic is possible. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students Cratylus presses him with the old sophistical argument, that falsehood is saying that which is not, and therefore saying nothing;—you cannot utter the word which is not. Cratylus With other thought, mark also the Abbe Maury: his broad bold face; mouth accurately primmed; full eyes, that ray out intelligence, falsehood,—the sort of sophistry which is astonished you should find it sophistical. The French Revolution If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical—is false.” Jane Eyre
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