- a variation of sophistic.
sophistical
Example Sentences
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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
All jaw and sophistical truth-aches is what ails The Condemned of Altona, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater.
From Time Magazine Archive
Well-informed, though often sophistical, he argues in a quiet conversational tone, with no attempt at oratory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Geometers have, in all ages, been open to the imputation of endeavouring to prove the most general facts of the outward world by sophistical reasoning, in order to avoid appeals to the senses.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart
