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
The “mono” is the essence of Mr. Lepper’s scheme; the bimetallic part of it is sophism and green cheese.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
Hans did not laugh in his turn, but facing round simply said— “Every truth is overshadowed by a sophism more like the truth than truth itself!”
From The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa by Mayne Reid
The vagaries of sophism in the English-speaking world were hardly less prolific than in Continental Europe.
From The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe by Francis A. (Francis Aloysius) Cunningham
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Frankenstein
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The Federalist Papers, No. 9 by Alexander Hamilton
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