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What is the noun for
sophistically
?
What's the
noun
for
sophistically
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sophist
One of a class of
teachers
of
rhetoric
,
philosophy
, and
politics
in ancient Greece.
(
loosely
)
A teacher who used
plausible
but
fallacious
reasoning
.
(
loosely, by extension
)
One who is
captious
, fallacious, or
deceptive
in
argument
.
Synonyms
:
polemicist
,
polemist
,
controversialist
,
logic chopper
,
devil's advocate
,
polemic
,
disputant
,
pundit
,
talking head
Examples
:
“And Plato does not on this ground reject the claim of the
sophist
to be the true philosopher.”
“His speaking tours took him to Athens, Corinth, and Ionia, where he contracted a bitter feud with his fellow
sophist
Polemon.”
“To the Parmenides, the
sophist
stands in a less defined and more remote relation.”
sophistry
(
uncountable
)
Cunning
, sometimes manifested as
trickery
.
(
uncountable
)
The art of using
deceptive
speech or writing.
(
countable
)
An
argument
that seems
plausible
, but is
fallacious
or
misleading
, especially one
devised
deliberately
to be so.
Synonyms
:
casuistry
,
sophism
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
equivocation
,
dishonesty
,
fraudulence
,
paralogy
,
trickery
,
specious reasoning
,
use of fallacious arguments
,
speciousness
,
deceptiveness
,
sophisticalness
,
misleadingness
,
chicanery
,
oversubtleness
,
subtlety
,
delusion
,
fudging
,
lie
,
deception
,
excuse
,
spuriousness
,
casuistics
,
quibbling
,
evasion
,
rationalisation
,
legalism
,
trick
,
justification
,
rationalization
,
unsound reasoning
,
overgeneral reasoning
,
twisting the facts
,
paralogism
,
quibble
,
fallacious argument
,
subtle argument
,
falsehood
,
error
,
untruth
,
erroneousness
,
mistake
…
more
Examples
:
“What will not work is to try to resolve the matter by using weasel words and
sophistry
to escape from a moral obligation.”
“This is nothing but a
sophistry
to beautify and embellish what is, essentially, a vile ideology.”
“Understanding this merely requires a grand exercise in Orwellian doublethink, Greek
sophistry
and a uniquely Lawloresque take on the world.”
sophism
A method of teaching using the techniques of
philosophy
and
rhetoric
.
(
informal
)
A
flawed
argument
,
superficially
correct in its reasoning, usually designed to
deceive
.
(
informal
)
An
intentional
fallacy
.
Synonyms
:
fallacy
,
deception
,
sophistry
,
speciousness
,
misconception
,
fallacious argument
,
equivocation
,
falsehood
,
casuistry
,
delusion
,
fallaciousness
,
deceptiveness
,
faultiness
,
evasion
,
quibbling
,
inconsistency
,
error
,
illogicality
,
untruth
,
invalidity
,
falsity
,
erroneousness
,
mistake
,
misapprehension
,
misinterpretation
,
miscalculation
,
inexactness
,
deceit
,
misconstrual
,
heresy
,
flaw
,
spuriousness
,
artifice
,
erratum
,
perversion
,
notion
,
prejudice
,
cavil
,
solecism
,
ambiguity
,
bias
,
elusion
,
aberration
,
preconception
,
quirk
,
subterfuge
,
paradox
,
deviation
,
non sequitur
,
falseness
…
more
Examples
:
“Thus, even since brute force has been held in check, the
sophism
has been not merely a species of evil, but the very essence of evil.”
“They regarded this view of science as unsatisfactory, incomplete, or just another form of
sophism
.”
“And style, said Flaubert, is a very manner of seeing things, adding that distinctions between thought and style are a
sophism
.”
sophister
A
sophist
.
(
dated, Britain, US, universities
)
A
student
who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.
Examples
:
“Do not let any
sophister
teach thee that thy God is far aloft from thee as the stars are.”
“Burke said the age of the economist was also the age of the
sophister
.”
“But wil you giue me leaue now eftsones a while to play the
Sophister
his part with you?”
sophisticalness
(
rare
)
The quality or state of being
sophistical
.
Synonyms
:
deceptiveness
,
fallaciousness
,
misleadingness
,
sophistry
,
speciousness
soph
(
dated
)
Clipping of
sophister
. (in academic sense)
Examples
:
“Our best stab at it is
soph
Jason Terry, who'll be handling it anyway and likes to get his share of shots in.”
“She certainly will not win the 28
soph
presidency, no matter how much you may root for her.”
“Dude was all-state as a
soph
and an All-American as a senior.”
soph
Clipping of
sophomore
.
Examples
:
“Our best stab at it is
soph
Jason Terry, who'll be handling it anyway and likes to get his share of shots in.”
“She certainly will not win the 28
soph
presidency, no matter how much you may root for her.”
“Dude was all-state as a
soph
and an All-American as a senior.”
sophism
Archaic spelling of
Sufism
.
Synonyms
:
fallacy
,
deception
,
sophistry
,
speciousness
,
misconception
,
fallacious argument
,
equivocation
,
falsehood
,
casuistry
,
delusion
,
fallaciousness
,
deceptiveness
,
faultiness
,
evasion
,
quibbling
,
inconsistency
,
error
,
illogicality
,
untruth
,
invalidity
,
falsity
,
erroneousness
,
mistake
,
misapprehension
,
misinterpretation
,
miscalculation
,
inexactness
,
deceit
,
misconstrual
,
heresy
,
flaw
,
spuriousness
,
artifice
,
erratum
,
perversion
,
notion
,
prejudice
,
cavil
,
solecism
,
ambiguity
,
bias
,
elusion
,
aberration
,
preconception
,
quirk
,
subterfuge
,
paradox
,
deviation
,
non sequitur
,
falseness
…
more
Examples
:
“Thus, even since brute force has been held in check, the
sophism
has been not merely a species of evil, but the very essence of evil.”
“They regarded this view of science as unsatisfactory, incomplete, or just another form of
sophism
.”
“And style, said Flaubert, is a very manner of seeing things, adding that distinctions between thought and style are a
sophism
.”
sophistress
A female
sophist
.
Examples
:
“What will you say to Aspatia Milesia, who is celebrated as a
Sophistress
, a Teacher of Rhetoric, and a Poetess?”
sophistresses
plural of
sophistress
sophisters
plural of
sophister
sophistries
plural of
sophistry
Synonyms
:
casuistries
,
sophisms
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacies
,
equivocations
,
dishonesties
,
fraudulences
,
paralogies
,
trickeries
,
speciousnesses
,
deceptiveness
,
sophisticalness
,
misleadingness
,
chicaneries
,
casuistics
,
subtleties
,
evasions
,
delusions
,
quibblings
,
spuriousness
,
excuses
,
lies
,
deceptions
,
rationalisations
,
justifications
,
legalisms
,
tricks
,
rationalizations
,
paralogisms
,
quibbles
,
falsehoods
,
errors
,
untruths
,
erroneousnesses
,
mistakes
,
misapprehensions
,
misinterpretations
,
miscalculations
,
inexactnesses
,
deceits
…
more
Examples
:
“A few of the usual postmodern sophists offered up a few of the usual postmodern
sophistries
about perfect freedom and individual will.”
“There are then, several
sophistries
involved in abdicating our positions to cultural corruption.”
“When you bombard them with
sophistries
, wrong messages and show them only dead-ends, that is where you finally reach.”
sophisms
plural of
sophism
Synonyms
:
fallacies
,
deception
,
sophistry
,
speciousness
,
misconception
,
casuistry
,
equivocation
,
invalidity
,
falsehood
,
quibblings
,
delusions
,
evasion
,
deceptiveness
,
fallaciousness
,
illogicality
,
faultiness
,
inconsistency
,
quirks
,
solecisms
,
non sequiturs
,
falsity
,
artifice
,
deviations
,
ambiguity
,
preconceptions
,
spuriousness
,
biases
,
erroneousness
,
elusion
,
cavils
,
flaws
,
perversion
,
mistakes
,
error
,
deceits
,
misconstrual
,
miscalculation
,
subterfuge
,
notions
,
prejudice
,
errata
,
paradoxes
,
aberrations
,
misinterpretation
,
heresy
,
misapprehensions
,
untruth
,
inexactness
,
falseness
,
inaccuracy
…
more
Examples
:
“The poison, rankling in her veins, she knew could not be expelled by idle
sophisms
.”
“Such
sophisms
, while efficient in the media or in the public, are in reality hardly convincing.”
“There never was a collection of more glaring contradictions, more gaudy
sophisms
, than the youthful orator's declamatory harangue.”
sophists
plural of
sophist
Synonyms
:
polemicists
,
polemists
,
controversialists
,
logic choppers
,
devil's advocates
,
polemics
,
disputants
,
pundits
,
talking heads
,
philosophers
,
scholars
,
thinkers
,
intellectuals
,
academics
,
sages
,
savants
,
intellect
,
theorists
,
gurus
,
theoreticians
,
Solomons
,
theorizers
,
epistemologists
,
philosophizers
,
hypothesizers
,
logicians
,
dialecticians
,
metaphysicians
,
metaphysicists
,
speculators
,
wise men
,
deep thinkers
,
geniuses
,
students
,
ideologists
,
wizzes
,
whizzes
,
mahatmas
,
casuists
,
brainiacs
,
Nestors
,
masterminds
,
experts
,
wizards
,
syllogists
,
eggheads
,
brains
,
boffins
,
rocket scientists
…
more
Examples
:
“A few of the usual postmodern
sophists
offered up a few of the usual postmodern sophistries about perfect freedom and individual will.”
“Sure enough, bylined
sophists
hit the Internet for descriptions of the machine.”
“We raised our children, in the postwar period, to be
sophists
, and the children became the Baby-Boomer generation.”
sophs
plural of
soph
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