Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. From LearnThat.org. [John Adams (1735-1826).]
I'M waiting for someone to ask me what "sophistry" means. From Wordnik.com. [Low-Class Conclusions] Reference
Thoughts on "philosophy otherwise known as sophistry". From Wordnik.com. [[philosophy] otherwise known as sophistry] Reference
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Complete] Reference
Your sophistry is a cliche 'a house divided cannot stand 'there is no end to your foolishness. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
However, it is sheer sophistry, that is, “subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation,” of which Senator Kerry should be ashamed. From Wordnik.com. [John Kerry, Excommunicated?] Reference
Majoring in sophistry, arewe?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Clinics Under Siege] Reference
The master of sophistry is at it again!. From Wordnik.com. [Cheney: Investigating CIA interrogations a political move] Reference
If the following mumbo jumbo is "sophistry", I stand guilty. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Most Think Bill Would Be Asset To President Hillary] Reference
I think really the administration should be embarrassed at that kind of sophistry and specious nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2007] Reference
What is unhealthy is this appearance of manifold expertise called by one name, "sophistry" (cf. Notomi 1999, 80). From Wordnik.com. [Method and Metaphysics in Plato's Sophist and Statesman] Reference
But that was all a long time ago before I found a philosophy that smacked of no sophistry which is no philosophy at all. From Wordnik.com. [Slimming Down....] Reference
This is the kind of sophistry that passes for law in our country. From Wordnik.com. [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference
Hence, we have the word "sophistry," which means fallacious reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [History of Education] Reference
That there is "sophistry" on one side or other, is certain; but now it matters not on which. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
Er … Nah … He's likely too shocked out of his wits for that kind of sophistry right now. From Wordnik.com. [Jihad Monitor] Reference
That there is "sophistry," on one side or other, is certain; but now it matters not on which. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Wollstonecraft] Reference
It's the kind of sophistry you'd expect from activists and lawyers but not laypeople with any common sense. From Wordnik.com. [The Jawa Report] Reference
It is immaterial what kind of sophistry is presented to overthrow the point, nothing can touch it short of proving it a mistranslation. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign 1847 edition] Reference
That's pure sophistry, that is. From Wordnik.com. [To all the whining starving artists out there (revised)] Reference
"sophistry" and wanted to devolve the discussion from there. From Wordnik.com. [Eidelblog] Reference
"sophistry," ... gives this Court pause with respect to the degree of judicial deference that the ESDC's blight determinations warrant. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantic Yards Report] Reference
This book overflows with that sort of stubborn sophistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Outing Of Adolf] Reference
The return to rhetorical sophistry meant only to persuade. From Wordnik.com. [Mr.Dostoevsky] Reference
Be silent -- no sophistry of yours can hide the brutal truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of Silence] Reference
Mercilessly he analyzed Douglas's speeches and exposed his sophistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Hypocrisy and sophistry become the second nature of the civilized man. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
That old sophistry about the world owing you a living has been exploded long ago. From Wordnik.com. [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference
And since the brain is ill at ease among lies, we cheat ourselves with sophistry. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Bread] Reference
Mabel felt there was sophistry somewhere in the argument, but could hardly point out where it was. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
The party, still bright and relatively new, has yet to succumb to the dead hand of sophistry and spin. From Wordnik.com. [Diary] Reference
This same selfishness of man will demand that I reconsider this talk, and will accuse me of sophistry. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
You should try Austrian lies, or German brutalities, or Italian and Spanish sophistry, or English stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
But his stubborn and acute reason would not be convinced by the sophistry that had so often deceived the public. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
What passed through my mind was perhaps as subtle as the finest sophistry; it was a sort of dialogue between the mind and the conscience. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And yet when all the sophistry is boiled down, the theory amounts to living things are complicated. From Wordnik.com. [2008 June - Telic Thoughts] Reference
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