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

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

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 Schopenhauer, Arthur

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 Carroll, Mitchell