Definitionn. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Last update: July 19, 2015
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People use sophistry to obscure the truth. [Please select]
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Although the cult leader knew he was being dishonest with his group members, he hoped they would believe his sophistry. [Please select]
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Surprisingly, many debates are won by individuals who make use of sophistry to convince others they know something they do not. [Please select]
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The wheel being her symbol she was the patron saint of wheelwrights and mechanics; as the confounder of heathen sophistry she was invoked by theologians, apologists, preachers and philosophers, and was chosen as the patron saint of the university of Paris; as the most holy and illustrious of Christian virgins she became the tutelary saint of nuns and virgins generally. [Please select]
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Let no sophistry blind you to the truth of that. [Please select]
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Such is the sophistry with which he enters upon the task of extenuation. [Please select]
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For a moment he was at a loss; then he had recourse to sophistry. [Please select]
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Cleaver's opinion, sophistry almost as bad as Newman's, and Froude's tutorship came to an end. [Please select]
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At first I tried to resist his sophistry, but it was not to be resisted. [Please select]
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Her facts were mere fancies, and her logic was not even good sophistry. [Please select]
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They did not invent this sophistry,--it is as old as our humanity. [Please select]
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