sophism

At the same time sophism was beginning to question traditional values and religious beliefs.

Rhetoric is stripped on the ground and tied by sophism.

This indeed is not at first manifest, since it would seem to present some appearance of being a sophism.

A sophism is a statement to deceive someone in a debate or conversation.

Socrates's response is a sophism that puts Plato in a difficult situation.

This is a two-edged sword that no sophism can ignore.

"Would you trust someone who could parse sophisms with Alcibiades?"

What is their sophism of "necessity" but an inability to imagine to-morrow morning?

Her work centers on Sophism and rhetoric, and their relation to philosophy.

Sophism can mean two very different things.

Sophism and platonism were rival schools, as enemies of each other.

For one of those gnostics, the visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism.

Sophism in the modern definition is a specious argument used for deceiving someone.

They are sophisms, not of men, but of pure reason herself, from which the Wisest cannot free himself.

A sophist is a person who uses sophisms.

It is the sophism which has destroyed families, devastated cities, and retarded the moral progress of the world more than anything else.

You see,' he said, 'this cape of sophisms in which I have been dressed till today?

In all four antinomies, the proof of the thesis is a sophism.

He was also an avowed opponent of sophism.

It gives sophism a bad name.

I would remind you - even if this is perhaps a sophism - that democracy and politics normally take precedence over economic considerations.

Sophistry means using sophisms for subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation.

In modern usage, sophism, sophist and sophistry are used derogatorily.

A famous section of Economic Sophisms concerns the way that tariffs are inherently counterproductive.

Your argument only works if you take 20th century sophism as gospel and completely ignore the sequence of events which made art what it is.