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 idea of various kinds of legato is purely a sophism, a product of non-musical hyper-analysis.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef

The exposure of this sophism is an example also of the value of a technical term.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

He says indeed that by experiment only can we distinguish a sophism from a demonstration.

From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Allbutt, Sir Thomas Clifford