Word of the Day – Sophistry

• Noun:  Sophistry
  1. subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation
  2. sophism
• Synonyms:
  1.  paralogy
  2. paralogism
  3. false logic
  4. fallacious reasoning
  5. flaw in the argument
  6. inconclusive reasoning
  7. reasoning in a circle
  8. begging the question
• Usage:
  1. “Privately, he knew that this was sophistry and so did any other Member competent to judge the matter.”
• Encountered:
  1. While reading Robert A. Heinlein’s Methuselah’s Children.

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