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

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

It is this, that every truth is overshadowed by a sophism, more like the truth than truth itself.

From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Reid, Mayne

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

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William