sophistry
IPA: sʌfˈɪstri
noun
- (uncountable, historical) The actions or arguments of a sophist.
- (uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning.
- (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so; a sophism.
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Examples of "sophistry" in Sentences
- The argument is a sophistry.
- So let's stop with the sophistry.
- Is this not the most absurd sophistry
- Sophistry is clearly against the rules.
- None of this sophistry belongs in the article.
- Isn't sophistry nearly the opposite of rhetoric
- The sophistry is only on one side of the argument.
- In the future, please refrain from using sophistry.
- Thoughts on "philosophy otherwise known as sophistry"
- More sophistry is being used in the matter of the links.
- Deletion of the category is deletion and is sophistry to pretend otherwise.
- Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
- And yet when all the sophistry is boiled down, the theory amounts to living things are complicated.
- Unless you've studied both the paper and Behe's response to it why would you fling the label sophistry around?
- However, it is sheer sophistry, that is, “subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation,” of which Senator Kerry should be ashamed
- There is a kind of sophistry, which is adapted to all ages, and to all countries; I mean that turn of mind which judgeth those vices in which we have no share.
- The people who have attained the levers of government power have demonstrated considerable skill in sophistry in order to obtain power that was not intended to be granted.
- 'And do you call it fair to persecute, in this way, at the instigation of a proud aristocrat (he had already learned this slang sophistry), a young man, who is almost a stranger among you?'
- Several in company checked him from time to time for his bitter reflections instead of arguments, and wished him, if he could to answer my arguments, which he called sophistry, assuring him that until he did, they must receive my opinion and arguments as scriptural and sound reasoning.
- Furthermore, this piece of sophistry from the Catholic League conveniently ignores the fact that there is no statistical correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia (despite what some people may choose to believe) and the majority of adults charged with sexual exploitation of minors are not gay but straight — including many who are married and have children of their own.