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"A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive."
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"(countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive."
],
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"word": "sophistry"
}
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"glosses": [
"An intentional fallacy."
],
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"(countable) An intentional fallacy."
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{
"ref": "1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion",
"text": "What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?"
},
{
"text": "30 Oct 1980, H. Dieter Zeh, letter to John Archibald Wheeler.\nI expect that the Copenhagen interpretation will some time be called the greatest sophism in the history of science, but I would consider it a terrible injustice if—when some day a solution should be found—some people claim that ‘this is of course what Bohr always meant’, only because he was sufficiently vague."
}
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"Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation."
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"(uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation."
],
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "method of teaching",
"word": "sofistiikka"
},
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"code": "scn",
"lang": "Sicilian",
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"tags": [
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "مُغَالَطَة"
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"roman": "sopʻestabanutʻyun",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"word": "սոփեստաբանություն"
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"word": "詭辯"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "guǐbiàn",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"word": "诡辩"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "sofisma"
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{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "sofisme"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"feminine",
"masculine"
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"word": "drogreden"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "sophisme"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Sophismus"
},
{
"code": "el",
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"roman": "sófisma",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "σόφισμα"
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{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "sofisteía",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "σοφιστεία"
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"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "sóphisma",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "σόφισμα"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sofisma"
},
{
"alt": "きべん",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "kiben",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"word": "詭弁"
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"code": "mk",
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"word": "കുതർക്കം"
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"code": "ml",
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"roman": "kaḷḷanyāyaṁ",
"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"word": "കള്ളന്യായം"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "pl",
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sofisma"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "софи́зм"
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"lang": "Sicilian",
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"feminine",
"masculine"
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"tags": [
"masculine"
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"code": "uk",
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"sense": "flawed argument superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "софі́зм"
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