intuition. sophistry

judge intuitively, judge by intuition; hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random., reason ill, reason falsely; misjudge; paralogize., pervert, quibble; equivocate, mystify, evade, elude; gloss over, varnish; misteach; mislead (error); cavil, refine, subtilize, split airs; misrepresent (lie)., beg the question, reason in a circle, cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on.