It was reserved for the school of physiocrats to regard this nature from another point of view in consequence of a sophistical line of reasoning. 重农学派却别有会心,用了诡辩的推理方法,从另一角度来看这种本质。
It is a great example of sophistical elenkos, or refutation.
这是诡辩的 elenkos 或反驳的一个很好的例子。
修道士(下)
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.
Those arguments were partly solid and partly sophistical. They were solid, so far as they asserted that the exportation of gold and silver in trade might frequently be advantageous to the country.
They were sophistical, too, perhaps, in asserting that the high price of exchange necessarily increased what they called the unfavourable balance of trade, or occasioned the exportation of a greater quantity of gold and silver.
也许他们也很狡猾,断言高昂的交换价格必然会增加他们所谓的贸易逆差,或者导致更多的黄金和白银出口。
Simon Critchley - Tragedy the Greeks and Us
As we will presently see, philosophy in the person of Socrates rejects sophistical rhetoric in the same way as it disengages from the public life of the city, governed by " the many." Philosophy's antirhetorical prejudice is antipolitical.