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.
- A 'sophism' is taken as a specious argument used for deceiving someone.
- Her work centers on Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy.
- There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that
- But, above all things, you should beware of imposing on yourself by that vulgar sophism which is called IGNORATIO ELENCHI.
- But, above all things, you should beware of imposing on yourself by that vulgar sophism which is called ignoratio elenchi.
- I am not sure if anything in Bronkhorst and Oetke's discussion clears away the suspicion that we are dealing with some kind of sophism here.
- That's why my inner child is delighted that Eliezer at Overcoming Bias has skewered the silly "absence of evidence" sophism: [I] n probability theory, absence of evidence is always evidence of absence.
- There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise.
- Lurking behind the Euro-sophism is an uneasy sense that, if there were open primaries on this side of the A tlantic, voters might start demanding all sorts of unreasonable things — might, in other words, start behaving like tea partiers.
- Bacchanals is this, that the women of the chorus, staid and temperate for the moment, following Dionysus in his alternations, are but the paler sisters of his more wild and gloomy votaries -- the true followers of the mystical Dionysus -- the real chorus of Zagreus; the idea that their [77] violent proceedings are the result of madness only, sent on them as a punishment for their original rejection of the god, being, as I said, when seen from the deeper motives of the myth, only a "sophism" of Euripides -- a piece of rationalism of which he avails himself for the purpose of softening down the tradition of which he has undertaken to be the poet.