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Through a study on the "sophistic propositions" of the pre-Qin School of Names, represented by "White dog is black", this paper proposes that these propositions are rationalistic in nature.
本文通过对“白狗黑”等先秦名家“诡辩”命题的研究，指出这些命题是先秦名家的理性主义哲学思想命题。
We should take the advantage of sophistic dynamic decision-making art to improve the quick-responding capability in the battlefield, and conduct swift command relying on the automatic command system.
要运用高超的动态决策艺术，提高战场快速反应能力；要依托指挥自动化系统，快速指挥；
After finishing the classics, you can read sophistic books.
经传都读熟了之后就可以读子书了。
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The first crowd to do stuff like that, you will find, in the fifth century B.C. In Greece is a movement called the Sophistic Movement.
你们会发现第一批做这种事情的人,是在公元后五世纪的希腊人,当时兴起了一种叫诡辩的运动
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This is the kind of absurd, sophistic reasoning that could lead the EPA to regulate outdoor trash can lids as a pesticide because they deter or mitigate a "pest"--namely, raccoons.
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