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