Definition of Sophisms. Meaning of Sophisms. Synonyms of Sophisms

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Definition of Sophisms

Sophism
Sophism Soph"ism, n. [F. sophisme, L. sophisma, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to make wise, ? to be become wise, to play the sophist, fr. ? wise.] The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive. When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism, or ``fallacy'. --I. Watts. Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of depraved men, and those of heartless philosophers. --I. Taylor.

Meaning of Sophisms from wikipedia

- adjust to changing conditions". Among his better-known works is Economic Sophisms, a series of essays (originally published in the Journal des économistes)...
- The sophists taught their students two main techniques: the usage of sophisms and contradictions. These means distinguished the speeches of the sophists...
- God and the State (called by its author The Historical Sophisms of the Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an unfinished m****cript by the Russian anarchist...
- Sophistical Re****ations (Gr****: Σοφιστικοὶ Ἔλεγχοι, romanized: Sophistikoi Elenchoi; Latin: De Sophisticis Elenchis) is a text in Aristotle's Organon in...
- logical and semi-logical. The semi-logical group included all of Aristotle's sophisms except ignoratio elenchi, petitio principii, and non causa pro causa, which...
- poetry from German into English. Free Trade and Its So-Called Sophisms: A Reply to 'Sophisms of Free Trade, etc., Examined by a Barrister' with Lord Vere...
- For the ancient Gr****s, “India" (Gr****: Ινδία) referred to the polity situated east of Persia and south of the Himalayas (with the exception of Serica)...
- drama, Aristophanes presents a caricature of Socrates that leans towards sophism, ridiculing Socrates as an absurd atheist. Socrates in Clouds is interested...
- suggests an origin from the now-defunct "sophomore", an obsolete variant of "sophism". In the U.S., a Junior is a student in the penultimate (usually third)...
- 2007). Economics, Competition and Academia: An Intellectual History of Sophism Versus Virtue. Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 101–. ISBN 978-1-84720-716-6...