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Definition of Sophistical
1. Adjective. Plausible but misleading.
Definition of Sophistical
1. Adjective. Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry. ¹
2. Adjective. Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sophistical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sophistical
Literary usage of Sophistical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Organon, Or: Logical Treatises, of Aristotle. With the Introduction of by Aristotle (1902)
"(arguments), and which are with more difficulty supplied from things that are
obvious. THE sophistical ELENCHI.i BOOK I. titie to these CHAP. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... the later periods of Greek literature, and abound in sophistical subtleties
and ornaments. The best of them are Achilles, Tatius, Heliodorus, Longus, ..."
3. Euripides and the Spirit of His Dramas by Paul Decharme (1906)
"IV EURIPIDES' RELATIONS WITH PROTAGORAS TRACES OF THE sophistical SPIRIT IN HIS
DRAMAS EURIPIDES, although Socrates' friend, was at the same time, ..."
4. The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheirdion and Fragments by Epictetus (1890)
"OF THE USE OF sophistical ARGUMENTS AND HYPOTHETICAL AND THE ... THE handling of
sophistical and hypothetical arguments, and of those which derive their ..."
5. The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments by Epictetus (1890)
"OF THE USE OF sophistical ... sophistical arguments in which the meaning of
propositions or of terms, which ought to remain the same, is dexterously changed ..."
6. The history of England (during the middle ages). by Sharon Turner (1814)
"sophistical philosophy of Greece. favour, as the moral and political state of
the empire declined. They increased the degeneracy which fostered them; ..."
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