sophism

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sophism englannista suomeksi

1. sofismi

1. sofistiikka

sophism englanniksi

1. The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.

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2. (quote-book)

3. A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.

4. (RQ:Landon Romance)

5. An intentional fallacy.

6. Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.

7. 1779, (w), Concerning Natural Religion/Part 2|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?

8. 30 Oct 1980, (w), letter to (w).

I expect that the (w) 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|Bohr always meant’, only because he was sufficiently vague.

9. (rfv-sense) Wisdom and knowledge.

10. (archaic spelling of).