philodoxとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈfɪlədɒks/

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philodox (複数形 philodoxes)

1. A person with an excessive interest in his/her own opinions.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     And no people are lesse Philosophers and more foolish, than Platoes Philodoxes, or lovers of their owne opinions.

   • 2003, Heiner Bielefeldt, Symbolic Representation in Kant’s Practical Philosophy:

     This, however, is a difficult task that only a true philosopher, and not a mere philodox, will be willing to tackle.

   • 2005, Charles Harrington Elster, There’s a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life, p.UNKNOWN (perhaps blurb):

     Consider that without realizing it you may have engaged in acokoinonia (sex without passion または desire), been bored to tears by the company of a philodox (someone in love with their opinions), or suffered from recurrent matutolypea (getting up on the wrong side of the bed).

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