SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling.
SOPHISTRY, n. The controversial method of an opponent, distinguished from one's own by superior insincerity and fooling.
If we take in our hand any volume of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number' No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence' No. Commit it then to the flames for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
Destroy his fib or sophistry, in vain, The creature's at his dirty work again.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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