sophistry
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sophistry
- /ˈsɒ.fɪ.stɹi/ UK
- /ˈsɑ.fɪ.stɹi/ US
Where it comes from
From Middle English safistre, soffistre, sofystry, sophestrie, sophestry, sophestrye, sophistre, sophistri, sophistrie, sophistry, sophistrye, sophystrye, from Old French sofisterie, sophistrie and Medieval Latin sophistria, Anglo-Latin sophestria, from Latin sophista, from Ancient Greek σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “wise man”), from σοφίζω (sophízō, “to be wise”), from σοφός (sophós, “wise”), equivalent to sophist + -ry.
noun sophistries
- The actions or arguments of a sophist. Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money.
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Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
And so, my head hitting have to be real, solid, and true, with no sophistry or fantasy about them.
Similar: excuse, sophism, casuistry, casuistics, pilpul, pilpulism, Jesuitry, Jesuitism
- An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so. And so he reasoned until the first generous impulse to proclaim the truth and relinquish his titles and his estates to their rightful owner was forgotten beneath the mass of sophistries which self-interest had advanced.
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noun actions of a sophist
| Español | sofistería |
|---|
noun plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning
| Español | sofistería |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Wortklauberei |
noun an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading
| Español | argucia |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 詭弁 kiben |
| 中文 | 詭辯 /诡辩 guǐbiàn |
| हिन्दी | हथकंडा hathkaṇḍā, जाल jāl |
| Português | sofisma |
| Deutsch | Haarspalterei |
| Ελληνικά | σοφιστεία sofisteía, σόφισμα sófisma |
| Русский | софи́стика sofístika |
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title = {sophistry},
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