- 1. n. The art or process of reasoning; logic. Source: opted
- 2. n. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. Source: opted
- 3. n. a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone Source: wordnet
- 4. 1. The art or word/process">process of word/reasoning">reasoning; logic. [Obs.] 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge. Syn. -- See Fallacy. Source: webster
- 5. n:100 n a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone Source: ecdict
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