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Definition of Sophistry

Sophistry
Sophistry Soph"ist*ry, n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.] 1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.] 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. --Coleridge. Syn: See Fallacy.

Meaning of Sophistry from wikipedia

- arts of the sophists were known as sophistry and gained a negative re****tion as tools of arbitrary reasoning. "Sophistry" is today used as a pejorative for...
- starring Tommy Tune, and subsequently appeared in two Off-Broadway plays, Sophistry and Eric Bogosian's Suburbia. After his breakout film role in 1994's Reality...
- acquisitive art into possession taking and exchanging goods, to which sophistry belongs. The sophist is a kind of merchant. After many successive collections...
- making her first stage appearance with two lines in the off-Broadway play Sophistry with Ethan Hawke. Around this time, Johansson began studying at the Professional...
- Parameswara Iyer, are recognised for moving Keralite poetry away from archaic sophistry and metaphysics, and towards a more lyrical mode. The poets like Moyinkutty...
- unsound reasoning, especially in relation to ethical questions (as in sophistry). It has been defined as follows: Study of cases of conscience and a method...
- of rhetoric to win arguments gave sophistication a derogatory quality. Sophistry was then the art of misleading. The system of modern Western sophistication...
- for me to lift." Additionally, he also points out how the question is sophistry. Suppose the objector insists that it's a coherent question, then we reply...
- somewhat different from the modern understanding, referring to a class of sophistry that applies an ambiguously worded question about people to a specific...
- Theater 1992–1993 The Seagull Konstantin Treplev Lyceum Theatre 1993 Sophistry Xavier 'Ex' Reynolds Playwrights Horizons 1999 Camino Real Kilroy Williamstown...