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Definitions
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Word origin
From Middle English sophim, from Old French soffime, sofime, sofisme, sophisme, from Latin sophisma (“fallacy, sophism”), from Ancient Greek σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphĭsmă), from σοφίζω (sophízō) + -μα (-ma).
Used in a sentence
“Within the framework of democracy a new ideology, born of sophism, took root and proclaimed the rights of the individual in all spheres, political as well as moral.”
“Empiricism has its roots in Greek and Roman sophism and skepticism, and continues through Kant and American pragmatism.”
“The hope of improvement is a quality at once so strong and so excellent in the human mind, that I, for one, disapprove of any sophism—or, if you will, argument—that tends to repress it.”
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