You can adduce studies and reports all you like, but their sophistry will always win out.
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Sophistry
//ˈsɒ.fɪ.stɹi//
Synonyms for "sophistry" (167 found)
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cunningnessdeceptiondeceptivenessdeductiondeductive reasoningdelusiondemonstrationdiscoursediscourse of reasondiscursive reasondisingenuousnessdistortionemptinessempty wordsepistemologyequivocationethicsevasionfallacyfine italian hand
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finessefirst philosophyformal fallacyfoxinessgamesmanshipgnosiologyguilehollow mockeryhollownesshysteron proteroninductioninductive reasoningingeniousnessinsidiousnessinsincere argumentinsincerityinventivenessitalian handjesuitrylogiclogical fallacylogical thoughtmaterial fallacymental philosophymere rhetoricmetaphysicsmisapplicationmisdirectionmisguidancemisinformation
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misinstructionmisknowledgemisleadingmisteachingmockerymoonshinemoral philosophymystificationnon sequiturobfuscationobscurantismobscurationone upmanshipone-upmanshipontologyparalogismperversionpetitio principiiphenomenologyphilosophastry
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philosophic doctrinephilosophic systemphilosophic theoryphilosophical inquiryphilosophical speculationphilosophismphilosophyplausibilityproofpseudosyllogismquibbleratiocinationrationalismrationalityrationalizationrationalizingreadinessreasonreasonablenessreasoningresourcefulnesssatanic cunningschool of philosophyschool of thoughtscience of beingsharpnessshiftinessshrewdnessslipperinessslynesssneakinesssolecismsophisticalnessspecious reasoningspeciousnessspuriousnessstealthstealthinesssubtiltysubtlenesssubtletysupplenesssweet reasontergiversationtheory of beautytheory of knowledgetongue in cheektrickinessuncandidnessuncandorunfranknessvalue theoryverbal fallacyvicious circlewarinessweak pointwilewileswilinesswit
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24 translations across 12 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- софистика noun (plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 詭辯 /诡辩 noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
German
2 entries- Haarspalterei noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
- Wortklauberei noun (plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning)
Greek
2 entries- σοφιστεία noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
- σόφισμα noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
Hindi
2 entries- जाल noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
- हथकंडा noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
Japanese
1 entries- 詭弁 noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
Latin
1 entries- argūtia noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
Polish
2 entries- sofistyka noun (plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning)
- sofistyka noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
Portuguese
1 entries- sofisma noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
Russian
1 entries- софи́стика noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
Spanish
3 entries- argucia noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
- sofistería noun (actions of a sophist)
- sofistería noun (plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning)
Swedish
4 entries- hårklyveri noun (plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning)
- hårklyveri noun (an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading)
- sofisteri noun (actions of a sophist)
- sofisteri noun (plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning)
Sample sentences
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I think that things have become very murky these days, lots of misunderstanding, miscues, a lot of what the ancients would have called sophistry.
Source: tatoeba (11595501)
Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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