sophistry

suomi-englanti sanakirja

sophistry englannista suomeksi

1. viisasteleva virhepäätelmä, sofismi

0. Substantiivi

sophistry englanniksi

1. The actions or arguments of a sophist.

2. (quote-book)

3. Plausible yet fallacious argumentation or reasoning.

4. An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.

5. (quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York|year_published=1963|page=99|passage=And so he reasoned until the first generous impulse to proclaim the truth and relinquish his titles and his estates to their rightful owner was forgotten beneath the mass of sophistries which self-interest had advanced.