A specious but fallacious argument, either used deliberately in order to deceive or mislead, or employed as a means of displaying ingenuity in…
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| 释义 | the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > instance of (16) sophismc1350 A specious but fallacious argument, either used deliberately in order to deceive or mislead, or employed as a means of displaying ingenuity in… fallacea1393 A sophistical argument; = fallacy, n. 2. fallation1483 A deceptive or misleading argument, a sophism; = fallacy, n. 2. sophisticationa1492 A sophism, a quibble, a fallacious argument. fallax1530 = fallacy, n. (in various senses). fallacy1532 A deceptive or misleading argument, a sophism; an instance of unsound or defective reasoning. In Logic esp. a flaw, material or formal, which renders… shift1545 A fraudulent or evasive device, a stratagem; a piece of sophistry, an evasion, subterfuge. elench1570 An index, analytical table of contents. collusion1581 A trick, or ambiguity, in words or reasoning. goose-trap1610 a trap for a ‘goose’, a quibble, sophism; (also) U.S. a swindle. voidance1621 A verbal evasion or subterfuge; an evasive answer or argument. Obsolete. rare. salvea1628 (a) A solution of a difficulty; also, a sophistical excuse or evasion. (b) A ‘salvo’ or means of ‘salving’ a person's honour, etc. sophistry1673 An instance of this; a sophism. wriggle1675 A piece of sophistry; a shift. Obsolete. rare. Jesuitism1749 A Jesuitical quibble or equivocation. rare. special pleader1867 A special plea; an instance of one-sided argumentation. |
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