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sophistry
(encz) | sophistry,klamná sofistika |
sophistry
(encz) | sophistry,sofistika |
sophistry
(encz) | sophistry,záludná sofistika |
Sophistry
(gcide) | Sophistry \Soph"ist*ry\, n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.]
1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]
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2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning
sound in appearance only.
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The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part,
in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in
another sense in the conclusion. --Coleridge.
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Syn: See Fallacy.
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sophistry
(wn) | sophistry
n 1: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: sophism,
sophistry, sophistication] |
sophistry
(devil) | SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished
from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is
that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began
by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men
ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of
words.
His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away,
And drags his sophistry to light of day;
Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort
To falsehood of so desperate a sort.
Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast,
He lies most lightly who the least is pressed.
Polydore Smith
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sophistry
(encz) | sophistry,klamná sofistika sophistry,sofistika sophistry,záludná sofistika |
sophistry
(wn) | sophistry
n 1: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: sophism,
sophistry, sophistication] |
sophistry
(devil) | SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished
from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling. This method is
that of the later Sophists, a Grecian sect of philosophers who began
by teaching wisdom, prudence, science, art and, in brief, whatever men
ought to know, but lost themselves in a maze of quibbles and a fog of
words.
His bad opponent's "facts" he sweeps away,
And drags his sophistry to light of day;
Then swears they're pushed to madness who resort
To falsehood of so desperate a sort.
Not so; like sods upon a dead man's breast,
He lies most lightly who the least is pressed.
Polydore Smith
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