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 greatest sophism with which the race has ever been cursed is that hoary one of the lazy preacher: “Do as I say, not as I do.”

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Holmes, Thomas K.

Reflection is the theatre of the combats which reason engages in with itself, with doubt, sophism, and error.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

Truth and falsehood, sincerity and deceit, logic and sophism are sporting with gracefulness in this singularly astonishing document.

From England, Canada and the Great War by Desjardins, Louis-Georges