sophism
IPA: sʌfɪzʌm
noun
- (uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
- (countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
- (countable) An intentional fallacy.
- (uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
- Archaic spelling of Sufism. [A family of spiritual schools in Islam emphasizing mysticism and asceticism.]
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Examples of "sophism" in Sentences
- Your sophism will not go through.
- She has studied sophism in university.
- It is acceptable as a solution, yet sophism.
- I guess sophism would have been under there.
- Should sophism be placed anywhere on that table
- I am not ready to continue with this type of sophism.
- Rhetoric is stripped on the ground and tied by sophism.
- This promise was clearly a sophism, proving Geogre's point.
- A 'sophism' is taken as a specious argument used for deceiving someone.
- Her work centers on Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy.
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