Sentence example with the word 'sophistical'

sophistical

acute, casuistic, deceptive, empty, ingenious, overrefined, politic, shrewd, sophistic, tactical, unserious

Definition adj. plausible but misleading

Last update: June 10, 2015


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His speeches and letters consist partly of declamations on the usual sophistical themes, partly deal with contemporary historical events: an argument between the fathers of Cynegirus and Callimachus (two Athenians who fell at Marathon) as to which had the better claim to have the funeral oration pronounced over him first; a discussion on the duties of; a king and of his subjects; a defence of the Byzantine general Chandrenos addressed to the emperor; a letter on the cruelties of the Catalans and Turks in Thessaly and Macedonia; a congratulatory letter to Theodorus Metochita; a panegyric on the king of Cyprus.   [Please select]

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The other is by sophistical reasoning, and a more or less successful effort to throw dust in his own eyes.   [Please select]

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Although philosophical in tendency he had not had sufficient experience in sophistical reasoning to enable him to disentangle the sinuosities of bad logic.   [Please select]

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And it was taken under the sophistical plea that it belonged to the nation.   [Please select]

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Yet he too employs a similar sophistical skill in overturning every conceivable theory of knowledge.   [Please select]

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Truly characteristic of Socrates is another point in his answer, which may also be regarded as sophistical.   [Please select]

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Cromwell put forth no such sophistical pleas as those revolutionists who robbed the French clergy,--that their property belonged to the nation.   [Please select]

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For a similar reason, I have applied this designation to the sophistical argument of pure reason.   [Please select]

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If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophisticalis false.   [Please select]

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As for watered stock, I know all the sophistical arguments, and they are many, for capitalizing earning capacity.   [Please select]

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All of this may have been a bit sophistical, but it was sound business from the publisher's point of view, and conveyed through the medium of Wittekind's unaffected urbanity it convinced Doria.   [Please select]

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