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Sophistry
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]
2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge.
Synonyms: See Fallacy.