Within the framework of democracy a new ideology, born of sophism, took root and proclaimed the rights of the individual in all spheres, political as well as moral.
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Sophism
Synonyms for "sophism" (72 found)
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33 translations across 22 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σόφισμα noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Arabic
2 entries- سَفْسَطَة noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
- مُغَالَطَة noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Armenian
1 entries- սոփեստաբանություն noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Catalan
2 entries- sofisma noun (method of teaching)
- sofisma noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 詭辯 /诡辩 noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Czech
1 entries- sofisma noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Dutch
2 entries- drogreden noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
- sofisme noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Finnish
1 entries- sofistiikka noun (method of teaching)
French
2 entries- sophisme noun (method of teaching)
- sophisme noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
German
1 entries- Sophismus noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Greek
2 entries- σοφιστεία noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
- σόφισμα noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Italian
1 entries- sofisma noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Japanese
1 entries- 詭弁 noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Macedonian
1 entries- софизам noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Malayalam
2 entries- കള്ളന്യായം noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
- കുതർക്കം noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Polish
2 entries- sofizm noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
- sofizmat noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Portuguese
2 entries- sofisma noun (method of teaching)
- sofisma noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Romanian
2 entries- sofism noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
- sofistică noun (method of teaching)
Russian
1 entries- софи́зм noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Sicilian
2 entries- fìsima noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
- sufìstica noun (method of teaching)
Spanish
2 entries- sofisma noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
- sofismo noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Ukrainian
1 entries- софі́зм noun (flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive)
Sample sentences
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Empiricism has its roots in Greek and Roman sophism and skepticism, and continues through Kant and American pragmatism.
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Sophistic teachers did not, in general, consciously aim at corrupting the young or turning them against their parents, but the radical skepticism and moral relativism of later sophism indirectly achieved something like this.
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The hope of improvement is a quality at once so strong and so excellent in the human mind, that I, for one, disapprove of any sophism—or, if you will, argument—that tends to repress it.
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