sophistry
nounEtymology
From Middle English safistre, soffistre, sofystry, sophestrie, sophestry, sophestrye, sophistre, sophistri, sophistrie, sophistry, sophistrye, sophystrye, from Old French sofisterie, sophistrie and Medieval Latin sophistria, Anglo-Latin sophestria, from Latin sophista, from Ancient Greek σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “wise man”), from σοφίζω (sophízō, “to be wise”), from σοφός (sophós, “wise”), equivalent to sophist + -ry.
- derived from σοφιστής
- derived from sophista
- derived from sophestria
- derived from sophistria
- derived from sofisterie
- inherited from safistre
Definitions
The actions or arguments of a sophist.
- Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money.
Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.
An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised…
An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
- And so he reasoned until the first generous impulse to proclaim the truth and relinquish his titles and his estates to their rightful owner was forgotten beneath the mass of sophistries which self-interest had advanced.
The neighborhood
- neighborSophia
- neighborsophism
- neighborsophist
- neighborsophistication
- neighborcasuistry
- neighbordemagogy
- neighborrhetoric
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for sophistry. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA