sophism

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1)  The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
 * 2)  A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
 * 3)  An intentional fallacy.
 * 4)  Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
 * 5) * 1779,, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:
 * What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?
 * 1) * 30 Oct 1980,, letter to.
 * I expect that the will some time be called the greatest sophism in the history of science, but I would consider it a terrible injustice if—when some day a solution should be found—some people claim that ‘this is of course what Bohr always meant’, only because he was sufficiently vague.
 * 1)  An intentional fallacy.
 * 2)  Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
 * 3) * 1779,, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion:
 * What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?
 * 1) * 30 Oct 1980,, letter to.
 * I expect that the will some time be called the greatest sophism in the history of science, but I would consider it a terrible injustice if—when some day a solution should be found—some people claim that ‘this is of course what Bohr always meant’, only because he was sufficiently vague.
 * I expect that the will some time be called the greatest sophism in the history of science, but I would consider it a terrible injustice if—when some day a solution should be found—some people claim that ‘this is of course what Bohr always meant’, only because he was sufficiently vague.

Translations

 * Finnish: sofistiikka
 * Sicilian: sufìstica


 * Arabic: سَفْسَطَة,.
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 * Ancient: σόφισμα
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 * Macedonian: софизам
 * Malayalam:, കള്ളന്യായം
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