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soph·ist·ry
/ˈsɑfəstri/
詭辯
From:
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Soph·ist·ry
n.
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
.
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From:
WordNet (r) 2.0
sophistry
n
:
a
deliberately
invalid
argument
displaying
ingenuity
in
reasoning
in
the
hope
of
deceiving
someone
[
syn
:
sophism
,
sophistication
]
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