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Definition of Sophistry
1. Noun. A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.
Generic synonyms: Fallacy, False Belief
Derivative terms: Sophist, Sophistic, Sophisticate
Definition of Sophistry
1. n. The art or process of reasoning; logic.
Definition of Sophistry
1. Noun. An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so. ¹
2. Noun. The art of using deceptive speech or writing. ¹
3. Noun. Cunning or trickery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sophistry
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Sophistry
Literary usage of Sophistry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1840)
"Although the rules of sophistry be needless for them that be perfect in logic
... sophistry is the feigned art of clenches, or coloured reasons. ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1840)
"Although the rules of sophistry be needless for them that be perfect in logic
... sophistry is the feigned art of clenches, or coloured reasons. ..."
3. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"... to condemn the pride of those who obstinately kick against the goads. CHAPTER IV.
THE sophistry AND JARGON OF THE SCHOOLS CONCERNING REPENTANCE, ..."
4. Money and Its Laws: Embracing a History of Monetary Theories, and a History by Henry Varnum Poor (1877)
"Such a sentiment, so plain, he tells us could not have been called in question
but for the sophistry of merchants and manufacturers, who tell the people ..."
5. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"The appeal to reason was commendable in itself, but the fault lay in the inability
of sophistry to use the instrument of reason in anything like a ..."
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