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sophism

Noun

historical uncountable countable

(uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.

Japanese Meaning

古代ギリシアのソフィスト学派、およびその信条や哲学・弁論法の教授法

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In his lectures he emphasized how sophism shaped rhetorical education in ancient Athens.

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彼の講義では、古代のソフィスト学派がアテネの修辞教育にどのように影響を与えたかを強調していた。

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Sense（1）

(uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.

Within the framework of democracy a new ideology, born of sophism, took root and proclaimed the rights of the individual in all spheres, political as well as moral.

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Sense（2）

(countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.

The hope of improvement is a quality at once so strong and so excellent in the human mind, that I, for one, disapprove of any sophism—or, if you will, argument—that tends to repress it.

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Sense（3）

(countable) An intentional fallacy.

Sense（4）

(uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.

What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?

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