Both Uses of
sophistry
in
The Screwtape Letters
- He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans thought them good and were following the best they knew.†
Chpt 5 *
- We make the Sophists: He raises up a Socrates to answer them.†
Chpt 23sophists = people who use seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning
Definition:
seemingly believable, but invalid arguments that display ingenuity in reasoning