Sentence example with the word 'sophism'

sophism

apparent soundness, bad case, crowd-pleasing argument, empty words, formal fallacy, irrationality, misapplication, oversubtlety, plausibleness, sophistry, subtlety

Definition n. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

Last update: June 20, 2015


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His was the famous sophism known as the KuptEbcov.   [noun]

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There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise.   [noun]

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As for the assertion that men are ill treated and murdered to force them to work for the profit of the rich, that is a sophism.   [noun]

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By this means I think that every sophism brought against the Sceptical formulae can be overturned.   [Please select]

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But, above all things, you should beware of imposing on yourself by that vulgar sophism which is called IGNORATIO ELENCHI.   [Please select]

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It is obvious that this is a sophism clearly opposed to sound reasoning, and to the first principles of the philosophy of the moral feelings.   [Please select]

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You all remember Zeno's famous paradox, or sophism, as many of our logic books still call it, of Achilles and the tortoise.   [Please select]

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The common way of showing up the sophism here is by pointing out the ambiguity of the expression 'never can overtake.'   [Please select]

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A demonstration, if just, admits of no opposite difficulty; and if not just, it is a mere sophism, and consequently can never be a difficulty.   [Please select]

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The consequence I shall draw from this may, at first sight, appear a mere sophism; but upon the least examination will be found solid and satisfactory.   [Please select]

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