sophistical

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Their first college years were full of logic, mostly derived from Aristotle, who identified 14 main types of valid deduction and 13 key gambits of sophistical trickery.

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2021

Now she’s a young Oxford scholar, intrigued by the works of a pair of celebrated but sophistical thinkers: one a fanatical rationalist, the other a complete relativist.

From Slate • Oct. 18, 2019

Well-informed, though often sophistical, he argues in a quiet conversational tone, with no attempt at oratory.

From Time Magazine Archive

All jaw and sophistical truth-aches is what ails The Condemned of Altona, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater.

From Time Magazine Archive

This is the reason why almost all ethical teachers, whether philosophical or religious, condemn suicide, although they themselves can only give far-fetched sophistical reasons for their opinion.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur