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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.
本文通過對“白狗黑”等先秦名家“詭辯”命題的研究，指出這些命題是先秦名家的理性主義哲學思想命題。
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.
要運用高超的動態決策藝術，提高戰場快速反應能力；要依托指揮自動化系統，快速指揮；
After finishing the classics, you can read sophistic books.
經傳都讀熟了之後就可以讀子書了。
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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.
你們會發現第一批做這種事情的人,是在公元後五世紀的希臘人,儅時興起了一種叫詭辯的運動
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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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