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seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning- Where facts failed her, she used sophistry.
sophistry = the use of seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning
- Any other explanation is sophistry.
- "Humphrey, that is all sophistry, and you know it," said his wife.Eliot, George -- Middlemarch
- Commit it then to the flames, for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
- He sees that they consistently are doing exactly that which they accuse the Sophists of doing...using emotionally persuasive language for the ulterior purpose of making the weaker argument,Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Coulde no man, by twenty thousand
Counterfeit the sophimes* of his art; *sophistries, beguilementsGeoffrey Chaucer -- The Canterbury Tales - Are they in harmony with the sympathies of Christ? or are they swayed and perverted by the sophistries of worldly policy?Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- "Humphrey, that is all sophistry, and you know it," said his wife.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- It presented itself to her, with no sophistry upon it, in its own plain nature.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- That face on which the condor Thought has fed, arched with high subtle malice, sophist glee.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- *d [Footnote d: A strange sophism has been made on this head in France.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- For once, they put the sophistry aside and used a little common sense.Scott Pratt -- An Innocent Client
- "Yes, there's something of a sophistry about that," Veslovsky agreed.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- The great threats to the nation, Adams warned, were sophistry, the spirit of party, and "the pestilence of foreign influence."David McCullough -- John Adams
- You always come back to my point, in spite of your wrigglings and evasions and sophistries, not to mention the intolerable length of your speeches.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical — is false.Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
- FAUST Thou art, and thou remain'st, a sophist, liar.Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
- He did not exactly suspect the secret objects of Muir, but he was far from being blind to his sophistry.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pathfinder
- "Save your sophistry Lucian," said the Inquisitor.Cassandra Clare -- City of Ashes
- I gave an impatient shrug at such sophistry.H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
sophistry = the use of seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning
sophists = people who use seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning
sophistries = invalid arguments that are seemingly believable and display ingenuity in reasoning