Definition of Sophistry. Meaning of Sophistry. Synonyms of Sophistry

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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...
- Schopenhauer considers that only logic pursues truth. For him, dialectic, sophistry, and eristic have no objective truth in view, but only the appearance...
- of rhetoric to win arguments gave sophistication a derogatory quality. Sophistry was then the art of misleading. The system of modern Western sophistication...
- somewhat different from the modern understanding, referring to a class of sophistry that applies an ambiguously worded question about people to a specific...
- The omnipotence paradox is a family of paradoxes that arise with some understandings of the term omnipotent. The paradox arises, for example, if one ****umes...
- American Jewish Theatre, 1986 A Joke (as "Grizzoffi"), Malaparte, 1992 Sophistry (as "Igor"), Playwrights Horizons, 1993 Wild Dogs, Malaparte, 1993 Unexpected...
- 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...
- acquisitive art into possession taking and exchanging goods, to which sophistry belongs. The sophist is a kind of merchant. After many successive collections...
- Theater 1992–1993 The Seagull Konstantin Treplev Lyceum Theatre 1993 Sophistry Xavier 'Ex' Reynolds Playwrights Horizons 1999 Camino Real Kilroy Williamstown...
- opere di Plutarco (secc. XV–XVI) Blank, D. (2011). "'Plutarch' and the Sophistry of 'Noble Lineage'". In Martínez, J. (ed.). Fakes and Forgers of classical...