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

I will not say, with certain theologians, "There are false prophets, therefore there are true ones," for that is a sophism of the worst kind.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille

Here commences the strife between sophism and common sense, between false science and natural truth, between good and bad philosophy, both of which come from free reflection.

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

—The learned suspected Scroderus of an indecent sophism in this—and Prignitz cried out aloud in the dispute, that Scroderus had shifted the idea upon him——but Scroderus went on, maintaining his thesis.

From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence