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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 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]