Sophister

(n.) A sophist. See Sophist.

(n.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.

(v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.

格罗夫斯整理

• I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one was a crafty old sophister, and the other a true novice. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• He had some reason for loving to dispute, being eloquent, an acute sophister, and, therefore, generally successful in argumentative conversation. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• No wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. 柏拉图. 理想国.

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