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

My question is avoided, and a new sophism given me which is also untrue.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)

Reflection is the theatre of the combats which reason engages in with itself, with doubt, sophism, and error.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor

Theoretical egoism can never be demonstrably refuted, yet in philosophy it has never been used otherwise than as a sceptical sophism, i.e., a pretence.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur