- a variation of sophistic.
sophistical
Example Sentences
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Their first college years were full of logic, mostly derived from Aristotle, who identified 14 main types of valid deduction and 13 key gambits of sophistical trickery.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
Now she’s a young Oxford scholar, intrigued by the works of a pair of celebrated but sophistical thinkers: one a fanatical rationalist, the other a complete relativist.
From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2019
All jaw and sophistical truth-aches is what ails The Condemned of Altona, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well-informed, though often sophistical, he argues in a quiet conversational tone, with no attempt at oratory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Though sometimes more sophistical than philosophical, more brilliant than profound, and betraying prejudices when he should elucidate principles, he was, upon the whole, not unworthy to be called "The Prince of Critics."
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
