sophistic reasoning
21ancient Greek civilization — ▪ historical region, Eurasia Introduction the period following Mycenaean civilization, which ended in about 1200 BC, to the death of Alexander the Great, in 323 BC. It was a period of political, philosophical, artistic, and scientific… …
22sophism — noun A flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive. An intentional fallacy. See Also: sophist, sophistic, sophisticate, sophisticated, sophistry …
23sophistical — adjective a) Pertaining to a sophist or sophistry. b) Fallacious, misleading or incorrect in logic or reasoning, especially intentionally. Syn: sophistic …
24illogical — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unreasoned, fallacious, specious, implausible, absurd. See error, absurdity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. irrational, unreasonable, absurd, specious, fallacious, sophistical, inconsequent,… …
25invalid — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I adj. void, null, worthless, useless, valueless, unusable. See nullification. II n. sufferer, patient, case, shut in; cripple. adj. sickly, ill, unhealthy, unwell, weak. See disease. II (Roget s IV)… …
26spurious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. false, counterfeit, sham, specious; bastard, illegitimate. See deception, error, falsehood. Ant., accurate, true. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. counterfeit, apocryphal, deceptive; see artificial 1 ,… …
27unsound — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unhealthy, diseased, sickly; deranged, unbalanced, unsettled; invalid, unreliable; untrue, incorrect, faulty, imperfect, illogical; decayed. See disease, error, imperfection. II (Roget s IV) modif.… …
28fallacious — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. erroneous, deceptive, misleading, fraudulent; see false 2 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [fuh LAY shus] based on fallacy, erroneous, false. His statements about green cheese on the moon were… …
29false — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [ Said of persons ] Syn. perfidious, faithless, treacherous, unfaithful, disloyal, dishonest, lying, untruthful, base, hypocritical, double dealing, knavish, roguish, malevolent, rascally, scoundrelly, mean, malicious,… …
30sophist — [ sɒfɪst] noun 1》 a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in ancient Greece, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning. 2》 a person who uses clever but fallacious arguments. Derivatives sophistic sə fɪstɪk… …
