Definitionn. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Last update: June 20, 2015
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His was the famous sophism known as the KuptEbcov. [noun]
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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. [noun]
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As for the assertion that men are ill treated and murdered to force them to work for the profit of the rich, that is a sophism. [noun]
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By this means I think that every sophism brought against the Sceptical formulae can be overturned. [Please select]
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But, above all things, you should beware of imposing on yourself by that vulgar sophism which is called IGNORATIO ELENCHI. [Please select]
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It is obvious that this is a sophism clearly opposed to sound reasoning, and to the first principles of the philosophy of the moral feelings. [Please select]
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You all remember Zeno's famous paradox, or sophism, as many of our logic books still call it, of Achilles and the tortoise. [Please select]
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The common way of showing up the sophism here is by pointing out the ambiguity of the expression 'never can overtake.' [Please select]
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A demonstration, if just, admits of no opposite difficulty; and if not just, it is a mere sophism, and consequently can never be a difficulty. [Please select]
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The consequence I shall draw from this may, at first sight, appear a mere sophism; but upon the least examination will be found solid and satisfactory. [Please select]
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