Sophism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A plausible but fallacious argument.
  • n. Deceptive or fallacious argumentation.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive. An intentional fallacy.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A false argumentation devised for the exercise of one's ingenuity or for the purpose of deceit; sometimes, a logically false argumentation; a fallacy.
  • n. Syn. A sophism is an argument known to be unsound by him who uses it; a paralogism is an unsound argument used without knowledge of its unsoundness. Paralogism is a strictly technical word of logic; sophism is not. Sophistry applies to reasoning as sophism to a single argument. See fallacy.
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  • n. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    false belief    fallacy   
    Cross Reference
    the litigious sophism    half-truth   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    argument    fallacy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    tergiversation    axil    captiousness    misdirection    rutting   
     
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