sophism – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
sophism
n.
fallacy, error in reasoning, misconception; deceptive argument
Sophism
Sophism is a method of teaching. In ancient Greece,
sophists were a category of teachers who specialized in using the techniques of
philosophy and
rhetoric for the purpose of teaching
arete — "excellence" or "virtue" — predominantly to young statesmen and nobility. The practice of charging money for education and providing wisdom only to those who could pay led to the condemnations made by
Socrates, through
Plato in his dialogues, as well as
Xenophon's
Memorabilia. Through works such as these, Sophists were portrayed as "" or "deceptive", hence the modern meaning of the term.
sophism
Noun
1. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
(synonym) sophistry, sophistication
(hypernym) fallacy, false belief
Sophism
(n.)
The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
sophism
Synonyms and related words:
apparent soundness, argument, argument by analogy, argumentum ad baculum, argumentum ad captandum, argumentum ad hominem, bad case, begging the question, casuistry, circular argument, circularity, claptrap, crowd-pleasing argument, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, disingenuousness, distortion, empty words, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, formal fallacy, hysteron proteron, illogicality, insincere argument, insincerity, invalidity, irrationality, jesuitism, jesuitry, logical fallacy, material fallacy, mere rhetoric, misapplication, moonshine, mystification, non sequitur, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, paralogism, perversion, petitio principii, philosophism, plausibility, plausibleness, pseudosyllogism, rationalization, solecism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, specious reasoning, speciousness, spuriousness, subtlety, unsoundness, verbal fallacy, vicious circle, vicious reasoning, weak point
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