sophistic reasoning

  • 31specious — adjective specious reasoning Syn: misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious, unsound, spurious, casuistic, sophistic …

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  • 32Sophist — n. 1 one who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments. 2 Gk Antiq. a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric, esp. one associated with moral scepticism and specious reasoning. Derivatives: sophistic adj. sophistical adj. sophistically adv.… …

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  • 33sophist — n. 1 one who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments. 2 Gk Antiq. a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric, esp. one associated with moral scepticism and specious reasoning. Derivatives: sophistic adj. sophistical adj. sophistically adv.… …

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  • 34sophistication — noun 1. uplifting enlightenment (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑edification • Derivationally related forms: ↑edify (for: ↑edification) • Hypernyms: ↑ …

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  • 35choplogic — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: chop (III) 1. : involved and often specious argumentation 2. obsolete : an absurdly argumentative person II. adjective …

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