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
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deceptivenessdelusiondisingenuousnessdistortionempty wordsequivocalnessequivocationevasive reasoningfallaciousnessfallacyformal fallacyhysteron proteronillogicalityinsincere argumentinsincerityinvalidityirrationalityjesuitismjesuitry
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logical fallacymaterial fallacymere rhetoricmisapplicationmoonshinemystificationnon sequiturobfuscationobscurantismoversubtletyparalogismperversionpetitio principiiphilosophismphilosophyplausibilityplausiblenesspseudosyllogismquibblerationalization
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solecismsophistical reasoningsophisticationsophistryspecial pleadingspeciosityspecious reasoningspeciousnessspuriousnesssubtletyunsoundnessverbal fallacyvicious circlevicious reasoningweak point
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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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