Sophisms

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Definitions and meanings of "Sophisms"

What do we mean by sophisms?

A method of teaching using the techniques of philosophy and rhetoric.

A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.

An intentional fallacy.

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The word "sophisms" in example sentences

For there are many of what are called sophisms, inferences in reasoning that are false, and yet so close an imitation of the true, as to deceive not only dull people, but clever men too, when they are not on their guard. ❋ Saint Augustine (1887)

Of all sophisms, that is the broadest which supposes personal liberty is extended by increasing the power of the community. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)

Such arguments are, as regards their result, rather to be termed sophisms than syllogisms, although indeed, as regards their origin, they are very well entitled to the latter name, inasmuch as they are not fictions or accidental products of reason, but are necessitated by its very nature. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)

"To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practises on others: in conversation we naturally diffuse our thoughts, and in writing we contract them; method is the excellence of writing, and unconstraint the grace of conversation." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Now Ligotti can take the heat for speaking the nihilism and for this "unsparing dissection of the sophisms spun by life's apologists," and all I have to do is sit back and nod my head from the shadows. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

You'll just get hit with a barrage of sophisms, red herrings, straw men, etc etc etc. Facts? ❋ Unknown (2009)

I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats: but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price perhaps of the existence of the whole human race. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats: but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The bill of rights he had in mind would provide “clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restrictions against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land.” ❋ Pauline Maier (2010)

Socrates (Debra Nails) sophismata [= sophisms] (Fabienne Pironet and Joke Spruyt) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although the distinction between de dicto and de re modal sentences was common in logical treatises on the properties of the terms, syncategorematic terms, and the solution of sophisms, twelfth - and thirteenth-century logicians were mainly interested in the logical properties of singular de re modal sentences. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And the ancient Greeks were aware of sophisms like the following: that dog is a father, and that dog is yours; so that dog is your father. ❋ Pietroski, Paul (2009)

William of Ockham, for instance, writes, “As for insolubles, you should know it is not because they can in no way be solved that some sophisms are called insolubles, but because they are solved with difficulty.” ❋ Spade, Paul Vincent (2009)

At times the conscience of the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Conscience is the chaos of chimeras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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