sophism
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A Sophism will sometimes expand and extend itself through the whole tissue of a long and tedious theory.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace
There is, in political economy, no more generally accredited Sophism than this.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace
Thanks to the Sophism which I would now endeavor to deprive of its disguise, the petitioners only reproduced, with an additional incongruity, the old doctrine of protection to national labor.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace
But, it may be said to me, finish, then, by destroying the Sophism.
From Sophisms of the Protectionists by White, Horace
I might refer the reader to the preceding demonstration for an answer to this Sophism; but it is one which recurs so often, that it deserves a special discussion.
From What Is Free Trade? An Adaptation of Frederic Bastiat's "Sophismes Éconimiques" Designed for the American Reader by Bastiat, Frédéric
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