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
The exposure of this sophism is an example also of the value of a technical term.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
The New York Daily Times, Washington letter, dated June 9: Douglas was much disconcerted to-day by Senator Trumbull's keen exposure of his Nebraska sophism.
From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
Nothing can be proved in this way, except what is assumed or taken for granted; and the foreknowledge of God is only a plausible way of begging the question, or concealing a sophism.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
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Frankenstein
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The Federalist Papers, No. 9 by Alexander Hamilton
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