sophism

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That prompted a Foreign Ministry official to say Pompeo had been “letting loose reckless remarks and sophism of all kinds against us every day.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2019

Mixing his sophism with some cynicism, Galbraith explained that such shyness will be outgrown before long.

From Time Magazine Archive

Her favors, however, were not to be won, as usual, by the payment of gold, but through the invention or solution of a difficult sophism.

From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell

The idea of various kinds of legato is purely a sophism, a product of non-musical hyper-analysis.

From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Hofmann, Josef

The cause of a thing, and the indispensable condition of it, are perfectly distinct from each other; and the argument of Day, in confounding them, has presented us with another sophism.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor