'Sophistry' definitions:
Definition of 'sophistry'
(from WordNet)
noun
A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: sophism, sophistry, sophistication]
Definition of 'Sophistry'
From: GCIDE
- Sophistry \Soph"ist*ry\, n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.]
- 1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: See Fallacy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'sophistry'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acuteness,
- aesthetics,
- ambiguity,
- argument,
- argument by analogy,
- argumentum ad baculum,
- argumentum ad captandum,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- art,
- artfulness,
- artifice,
- astuteness,
- axiology,
- bad case,
- begging the question,
- cageyness,
- callidity,
- canniness,
- casuistry,
- circular argument,
- claptrap,
- cleverness,
- college of Laputa,
- corruption,
- cosmology,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- crossed fingers,
- crowd-pleasing argument,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- deduction,
- deductive reasoning,
- delusion,
- demonstration,
- discourse,
- discourse of reason,
- discursive reason,
- disingenuousness,
- emptiness,
- empty words,
- epistemology,
- equivocation,
- ethics,
- fallacy,
- fine Italian hand,
- finesse,
- first philosophy,
- formal fallacy,
- foxiness,
- gamesmanship,
- gnosiology,
- guile,
- hollow mockery,
- hollowness,
- hysteron proteron,
- induction,
- inductive reasoning,
- ingeniousness,
- insidiousness,
- insincere argument,
- insincerity,
- inventiveness,
- Italian hand,
- jesuitry,
- logic,
- logical fallacy,
- logical thought,
- material fallacy,
- mental philosophy,
- mere rhetoric,
- metaphysics,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- misteaching,
- mockery,
- moonshine,
- moral philosophy,
- mystification,
- non sequitur,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- one-upmanship,
- ontology,
- paralogism,
- perversion,
- petitio principii,
- phenomenology,
- philosophastry,
- philosophic doctrine,
- philosophic system,
- philosophic theory,
- philosophical inquiry,
- philosophical speculation,
- philosophism,
- philosophy,
- proof,
- pseudosyllogism,
- ratiocination,
- rationalism,
- rationality,
- rationalization,
- rationalizing,
- readiness,
- reason,
- reasonableness,
- reasoning,
- resourcefulness,
- satanic cunning,
- school of philosophy,
- school of thought,
- science of being,
- sharpness,
- shiftiness,
- shrewdness,
- slipperiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- solecism,
- sophism,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- spuriousness,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- subtilty,
- subtleness,
- subtlety,
- suppleness,
- sweet reason,
- tergiversation,
- theory of beauty,
- theory of knowledge,
- tongue in cheek,
- trickiness,
- uncandidness,
- uncandor,
- unfrankness,
- value theory,
- verbal fallacy,
- wariness,
- weak point,
- wiles,
- wiliness,
- wit