sophism

How To Use sophism In A Sentence

• And here there necessarily entered the governing idea, encyclopædism or pansophism. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
• This year, in shame, the relevant secretary of the Assembly has decided to reduce the scope of the fest and has given reasons which can only be described as sophism.
• In the most complicated, as in the most simple instances, the sophism consists in this: _Judging of the utility of labor by its duration and intensity, and not by its results_, which leads to this economic policy, _a reduction of the results of labor, in order to increase its duration and intensity_. Sophisms of the Protectionists
• Lurking behind the Euro-sophism is an uneasy sense that, if there were open primaries on this side of the A tlantic, voters might start demanding all sorts of unreasonable things — might, in other words, start behaving like tea partiers. Why Europeans Can't Throw a Tea Party
• But, above all things, you should beware of imposing on yourself by that vulgar sophism which is called IGNORATIO ELENCHI. Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous
• Thus they continued in such error, blindness, decrees, sophisms, superstitions; idle ceremonies and traditions were the sum of their new-coined holiness and religion, and by these knaveries and stratagems they were able to involve multitudes, to deceive the most sanctified souls, and, if it were possible, the very elect. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Disjunctions or conditionals featured as premises in many of the logical paradoxes and sophisms which members of the Dialectical school discussed.
• But, above all things, you should beware of imposing on yourself by that vulgar sophism which is called ignoratio elenchi. The Third Dialogue
• There are a number of cogent arguments against fur that do not require descending into this kind of bigoted sophism.
• As was the case with Socrates, philosophy has sought to peel itself away from sophism by admitting to its ignorance, as if unknowing were a pathos to be confessed.