sophism
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That prompted a Foreign Ministry official to say Pompeo had been “letting loose reckless remarks and sophism of all kinds against us every day.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2019
Mixing his sophism with some cynicism, Galbraith explained that such shyness will be outgrown before long.
From Time Magazine Archive
This poor sophism has been adopted by Mr. Locke, and seriously employed to prove that human volitions “cannot be free.”
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor
It is this, that every truth is overshadowed by a sophism, more like the truth than truth itself.
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne
Theoretical egoism can never be demonstrably refuted, yet in philosophy it has never been used otherwise than as a sceptical sophism, i.e., a pretence.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur
Vocabulary lists containing sophism
Frankenstein
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The Federalist Papers, No. 9 by Alexander Hamilton
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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