Talk:sophistry

Part of what makes sophistry unique from other fallacious forms of argument is the act of over-complication. Making a simple matter seem more complex than it really is, then using the unnecessary complexity to change the matter in the eyes of the beholder, is sophistry. No definition of sophistry can be complete without mentioning over-complication.

RFV discussion: September–December 2022
Rfv-sense: Cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.

In the entry since 2007. This is fairly generic. The other senses are the uncountable sophistic reasoning and the countable instance of sophistic reasoning, and these are in dictionaries. Both of these are cases of use of cunning, but that does not establish a generic sense of cunning. --Dan Polansky (talk) 15:39, 25 September 2022 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. The sense was already removed by another user a week back, and this has been open for a while and the decision seems sensible. —Al-Muqanna المقنع (talk) 14:20, 12 December 2022 (UTC)