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sophistry |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sophistry \Soph"ist*ry\, n. [OE. sophistrie OF sophisterie.] 1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.] 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. 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. Syn: See {Fallacy}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sophistry n : a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {sophism}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: 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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