He was an expert in committing sophism. From LearnThat.org.
A sophism is taken as a specious argument used for deceiving someone. From Wordnik.com. [Intrusive Government: Quotes From the Past] Reference
There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
I am not sure if anything in Bronkhorst and Oetke's discussion clears away the suspicion that we are dealing with some kind of sophism here. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
The sophism is the same. From Wordnik.com. [Sophisms of the Protectionists] Reference
This sophism has been already sufficiently refuted. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
This is an obvious sophism, which will deceive no one. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Controversy] Reference
It was only a sophism, or what the fencing-master calls a feint. From Wordnik.com. [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference
It was only a sophism of mine, what the fencing master calls a feint. From Wordnik.com. [Religion] Reference
As noted above, our book contains over three hundred sophism sentences. From Wordnik.com. [Richard the Sophister] Reference
A sophism of this kind is put into the mouth of Socrates by Aristophanes in the. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
This is a sophism largely current abroad, and not without its dupes even at home. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
She could have laughed at the sophism that one chooses always that which pleases one most. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
Whether this was the sophism by which Satan's victory was obtained, we presume not to determine. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Various Important Subjects] Reference
Buridan's quick answer to the sophism is that Socrates's proposition is false in the case at hand. From Wordnik.com. [John Buridan] Reference
To a certain extent Catholic intellectuals writing in this area have been taken in by this sophism. From Wordnik.com. [Chesterton and Capitalism Part Three] Reference
So much conviction based on nothing more than conjecture, assumption, sophism and just plain gibberish. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Pretending that there was a similar lack of factual controversy regarding the detainees is pure sophism. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney] Reference
The very first sophism sentence treated is one of the least complicated (this sophism involves no casus). From Wordnik.com. [Richard the Sophister] Reference
In pursuance of this design, there is another sophism of theirs, which it now devolves upon us to examine. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
In this sophism you admit the premisses but deny the conclusion, in contradiction with a well-known rule of logic. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Controversy] Reference
Mr. O'Neil is right, and that this is no sophism it is the intention of this article, among other things, to show. From Wordnik.com. [THE TRAMP] Reference
“A base sophism, Frank, mere sophistry, as you know: a good lunch is better than a bad one for any living man.”. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions] Reference
Catherine was far from saying to herself that this was an ingenious sophism; but she met the appeal none the less squarely. From Wordnik.com. [Washington Square] Reference
But then it is a sophism to argue from thence that this immunity is the cause of my delight either on these or on any occasions. From Wordnik.com. [On the Sublime and Beautiful] Reference
Solution: The solution to the sophism is to note that “every man” is equivocal as to reference to every man taken singularly. From Wordnik.com. [Richard the Sophister] Reference
It still never ceases to amaze me, logic, the science of reason, is so often conflated to be use with sophism in the same reference. From Wordnik.com. [Doug Schoen: After Petraeus, Conciliation: The Report Must Not Derail a Moderate Democratic Strategy] Reference
The Xunzi does not criticize him by name but does cite a version of his white horse sophism in a list of incorrect uses of names (22.3). From Wordnik.com. [School of Names] Reference
Poetry and philosophy converge in the Dialogues, and most often philosophy finds its rival in sophism or rhetoric, rather than in poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
It is probable that the sophism soothed my conscience at the moment, though I could never escape the promise that sealed my agreement with Lieutenant Seagram. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
By way of specimen, as to the remarks we have ventured to make, we shall endeavour to take to pieces the following sophism, for a sophism we cannot help considering it. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 550, June 2, 1832] Reference
The first sophism consists in asking ourselves if there is such a thing as duty in the abstract, or if this word does not cover one of the numerous illusions of our forefathers. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
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