sophism

sophism englannista suomeksi

1. sofismi

1. sofistiikka

sophism englanniksi

1. The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.

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2. (quote-book)

3. A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.

4. (RQ:Landon Romance)

5. An intentional fallacy.

6. Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.

7. 1779, David Hume, Concerning Natural Religion/Part 2|Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:

What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?

8. (archaic spelling of)