sophistry
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Though "A View From the Bridge" was her Broadway debut, she had one other stage credit - in an off-Broadway play in 1993 called "Sophistry" with Ethan Hawke where she had only one line.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2012
There are two startling passages in another new off-Broadway play, the keenly observed if scattershot Sophistry, set on a college campus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sophistry avails nothing here; a child, left in the woods, would be and remain a savage, matching his wits with gorillas.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred
Sophistry in science is referable to incomplete analysis of nature, of systems—to artificial arrangements—to supposing qualities, to assuming principles, to false inductions from imperfect demonstration.
From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by Holyoake, George Jacob
Persuasive, tho' a woful Blockhead he: Truth dies before his shadowy Sophistry.
From An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad by Harte, Walter
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