sophistry
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English
Etymology
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, “I am wise”), from σοφός (sophós, “wise”), equivalent to sophist + -ry.
Pronunciation
Noun
sophistry (countable and uncountable, plural sophistries)
- (uncountable, historical) The actions or arguments of a sophist.
- 1844, Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments:
- Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money.
- (uncountable) Plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning.
- (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so; a sophism.
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Translations
plausible yet fallacious argumentations or reasoning
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an argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading
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See also
Further reading
- “sophistry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “sophistry”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “sophistry”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
- “sophistry”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “sophistry” (US) / “sophistry” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “sophistry” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.