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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...
- acquisitive art into possession taking and exchanging goods, to which sophistry belongs. The sophist is a kind of merchant. After many successive collections...
- 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...
- the 18th century, Adam Smith famously warned against the "interested sophistry" of industry, s****ing to gain an advantage at the cost of the consumers...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- alongside Calista Flockhart, Ethan Hawke, Steve Zahn in an off-Broadway play, Sophistry. In 2002 Dajani appeared as Bev in Tom Donaghy's Boys and Girls. She sings...
- by Dudley Fenner, The Artes of Logike and Rethorike, 1584) The Art of Sophistry Volume 7 Seven Philosophical Problems Decameron Physiologi**** Proportion...
- Schopenhauer considers that only logic pursues truth. For him, dialectic, sophistry, and eristic have no objective truth in view, but only the appearance...