A deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone.
Ancient Greek philosophical school.
1 No sophism of political economy is more widely spread than the foregoing.
2 This sophism has found its way into several books on penal legislation.
3 The wretched sophism was silenced by the execrations of the House of Commons.
4 He is the reputed author of the famous sophism against motion.
5 It is the sad consequence, and the rest is only sophism .
6 You can't pull my leg with an old sophism with whiskers on it.
7 And he formulated this decision with the reassuring sophism : One loves but once!
8 Self-preservation is not theft; let us ease our conscience with this sophism ... Ha!
9 The preceding passage seems to rest on a similar sophism .
10 But with a word he obliterated the sophism - and with a glance repressed the badinage.
11 This is an obvious sophism , which will deceive no one.
12 This childishness was not the sophism of my reason; it was that of my indolence.
13 But every step of this sophism is in error.
14 To this the Emperor consented, seeking to mask the unscrupulous deed by a pitiful sophism .
15 Seeing me foiled, Charley advanced with the doubtful aid of a sophism to help me.
16 Hurl some idle sophism at a woman of intelligence.
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