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
Her favors, however, were not to be won, as usual, by the payment of gold, but through the invention or solution of a difficult sophism.
From Greek Women by Mitchell Carroll
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 Arthur Schopenhauer
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 Victor Cousin
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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