sophistry
n . 诡辩
诡辩
sophistry n 1 :
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [
synonym : {
sophism },
{
sophistry }, {
sophistication }]
Sophistry \
Soph "
ist *
ry \,
n . [
OE .
sophistrie ,
OF .
sophisterie .]
1 .
The art or process of reasoning ;
logic . [
Obs .]
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1913 Webster ]
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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152 Moby Thesaurus words for "
sophistry ":
Italian hand ,
acuteness ,
aesthetics ,
ambiguity ,
argument ,
argument by analogy ,
argumentum ad baculum ,
argumentum ad captandum ,
argumentum ad hominem ,
art ,
artfulness ,
artifice ,
astuteness ,
axiology ,
bad case ,
begging the question ,
cageyness ,
callidity ,
canniness ,
casuistry ,
circular argument ,
claptrap ,
cleverness ,
college of Laputa ,
corruption ,
cosmology ,
craft ,
craftiness ,
crossed fingers ,
crowd -
pleasing argument ,
cunning ,
cunningness ,
deception ,
deceptiveness ,
deduction ,
deductive reasoning ,
delusion ,
demonstration ,
discourse ,
discourse of reason ,
discursive reason ,
disingenuousness ,
emptiness ,
empty words ,
epistemology ,
equivocation ,
ethics ,
fallacy ,
fine Italian hand ,
finesse ,
first philosophy ,
formal fallacy ,
foxiness ,
gamesmanship ,
gnosiology ,
guile ,
hollow mockery ,
hollowness ,
hysteron proteron ,
induction ,
inductive reasoning ,
ingeniousness ,
insidiousness ,
insincere argument ,
insincerity ,
inventiveness ,
jesuitry ,
logic ,
logical fallacy ,
logical thought ,
material fallacy ,
mental philosophy ,
mere rhetoric ,
metaphysics ,
misdirection ,
misguidance ,
misinformation ,
misinstruction ,
misknowledge ,
misleading ,
misteaching ,
mockery ,
moonshine ,
moral philosophy ,
mystification ,
non sequitur ,
obfuscation ,
obscurantism ,
obscuration ,
one -
upmanship ,
ontology ,
paralogism ,
perversion ,
petitio principii ,
phenomenology ,
philosophastry ,
philosophic doctrine ,
philosophic system ,
philosophic theory ,
philosophical inquiry ,
philosophical speculation ,
philosophism ,
philosophy ,
proof ,
pseudosyllogism ,
ratiocination ,
rationalism ,
rationality ,
rationalization ,
rationalizing ,
readiness ,
reason ,
reasonableness ,
reasoning ,
resourcefulness ,
satanic cunning ,
school of philosophy ,
school of thought ,
science of being ,
sharpness ,
shiftiness ,
shrewdness ,
slipperiness ,
slyness ,
sneakiness ,
solecism ,
sophism ,
specious reasoning ,
speciousness ,
spuriousness ,
stealth ,
stealthiness ,
subtilty ,
subtleness ,
subtlety ,
suppleness ,
sweet reason ,
tergiversation ,
theory of beauty ,
theory of knowledge ,
tongue in cheek ,
trickiness ,
uncandidness ,
uncandor ,
unfrankness ,
value theory ,
verbal fallacy ,
wariness ,
weak point ,
wiles ,
wiliness ,
wit
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