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 “mono” is the essence of Mr. Lepper’s scheme; the bimetallic part of it is sophism and green cheese.

From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various

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

With what clearness! with what force! would President Edwards have dashed this poor flimsy sophism into a thousand atoms, if he had come across it in the atheism of Hobbes!

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor