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
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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 Albert Taylor Bledsoe
His was the famous sophism known as the Κυριεύων.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" by Various
This sophism confounds the axiomatical necessity referred to in the premise, that it must rain or not rain, with the causal necessity intended to be deduced from it in the conclusion.
From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Vocabulary lists containing sophism
Frankenstein
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The Federalist Papers, No. 9 by Alexander Hamilton
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