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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