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
Truth and falsehood, sincerity and deceit, logic and sophism are sporting with gracefulness in this singularly astonishing document.
From England, Canada and the Great War by Desjardins, Louis-Georges
—The learned suspected Scroderus of an indecent sophism in this—and Prignitz cried out aloud in the dispute, that Scroderus had shifted the idea upon him——but Scroderus went on, maintaining his thesis.
From The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence
Intelligence in its turn finds, in the heart, a rampart against sophism.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
Vocabulary lists containing sophism
Frankenstein
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The Federalist Papers, No. 9 by Alexander Hamilton
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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