sophism
Example Sentences
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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
There is nothing—no fallacy, no moral sophism, that would not be used to attain such an end.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
Here commences the strife between sophism and common sense, between false science and natural truth, between good and bad philosophy, both of which come from free reflection.
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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