| 单词 | third man |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthird man third man n. (a) Cricket a fielder placed between point and short slip, but further out; an additional short slip; also, the position occupied by him; (b) Lacrosse a defence player placed behind the centre; the position occupied by him; (c) Philosophy. [Greek τρίτος ἄνθρωπος] , a term from Aristotle ( Metaphysics Bk. A 990b 17) for a third element (or man) which, in the paradox stated in Plato's Parmenides, seems to be needed in arguments from the particular instance (of a man) to the ideal form (of Man); hence attributive, as third-man argument; (d) Boxing slang, the referee; (e) an unidentified third participant in a crime. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > [adjective] > Aristotelian > of elements of Aristotelianism predicamentalc1600 transcendental1668 transcendent1706 third-man argument1801 categorical1817 prioristic1890 the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of material cause1393 matterc1395 matter subjecta1398 predicamenta1425 quality?1537 first substance1551 predicable1551 property1551 proprium1551 transcendent1581 final cause1587 category1588 habit1588 ante-predicament?1596 postpredicament1599 entelechy1603 transumption1628 secondary1656 objective cause1668 transcendental1668 general substance1697 third man1801 thought-form1834 posterioristic universal1902 ousia1917 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > lacrosse > [noun] > specific positions third man1801 home man1862 point1862 attack1869 home1869 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > fielding > [noun] > fielding position > specific bat's end1742 midwicket1744 middle wicket1772 long-stop1773 long field?1801 third man1801 point1816 slip1816 backstop1819 cover1836 long field on1837 short stopc1837 long on1843 middle-on1843 short leg1843 cover-point1846 square leg1849 long off1854 mid-off1865 leg slip1869 mid-on1870 cover-slip1891 box1911 gully1920 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > fielder > fielders by position middle wicket1772 long-stop1773 second stop1773 stop1773 long fieldsman1790 long field?1801 third man1801 outscout1805 leg1816 point1816 slip1816 backstop1819 long fielder1835 long leg1835 long field off1837 short leg1843 square leg1849 cover-point1850 long-stopper1851 middle-off1851 cover-slip1854 long off1854 left fielder1860 short square1860 mid-off1865 extra cover (point)1867 deep-fielder1870 mid-on1870 cover1897 leg trap1897 infield1898 deep field1900 slipper1903 slip fieldsman1906 midwicket1909 infieldsman1910 slip-catcher1920 infielder1927 leg slip1956 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > referee third man1927 society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > crime > a criminal or law-breaker > one who assists > third participant third man1949 1801 T. Taylor tr. Aristotle Metaphysics i. vii. 26 Some make ideas of things relative, of which we do not say there is an essential genus, and some assert that there is a third man. 1851 F. W. Lillywhite in F. Lillywhite Guide to Cricketers (ed. 4) 23 If Long-slip is required, take the Third man away. 1871 A. Hoppe Eng.-Deutsches Suppl.-Lex. Third man, einer der fielders im Cricket. 1881 Standard 14 June 3/8 The catch that dismissed him was an easy one at third man. 1891 W. G. Grace Cricket x. 260 Third man must ask the bowler whether he should stand rather fine or square. 1897 E. T. Sachs in S. Christopherson et al. Hockey & Lacrosse 104 In third man I like a powerful player, and a tall. 1916 A. E. Taylor in Proc. Aristotelian Soc. XVI. 255 What I propose to show is that the appeal to the regress..is certainly not what Aristotle usually has in mind when he speaks of a certain type of argument as the ‘third man’. 1920 S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity I. ii. iii. 218 This objection..is analogous to one of the kinds of objection taken in ancient Greece to the Forms under the name of the argument of the ‘third man’. 1924 W. D. Ross Aristotle's Metaphysics I. 195 Other forms of the ‘third man’ argument. 1927 J. Palmer Recoll. Boxing Referee i. 2 I have acted as third man in the ring on at least three thousand occasions. 1949 G. Greene in Amer. Mag. Mar. 142 (title) The 3rd Man. 1949 G. Greene in Amer. Mag. Mar. 149/2 And the third man? Who was he? 1954 Philos. Rev. 63 342 Plato could neither convince himself that the Third Man Argument was valid, nor refute it convincingly. 1960 M. Golesworthy Encycl. Boxing 171/2 Corri..was the third man in the ring for the middleweight bout. 1964 Lacrosse (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 34/2 Third Man should mark Third Home closely. 1977 M. Green Children of Sun (rev. ed.) ix. 434 Kim Philby was finally identified as the ‘Third Man’, in 1963, when he too fled to Moscow. < as lemmas |
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