Word Meanings - SOPHISTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. 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
Additional info about word: SOPHISTRY
1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOPHISTRY)
- Casuistry
- Sophistry
- Jesuitry
- fallacy
- refinement
- quibble
- strawsplitting
- Chicanery
- Artifice
- subtlety
- sophistry
- subterfuge
- prevarication
- shift
- trickery
- dodge
- mystification
- pettifogging
- underhandedness
- Fallacy
- error
- blunder
- misconception
- bugbear
- fiction
- delusion
- chimera
- Falsehood
- Untruth
- deception
- forgery
- lie
- cheat
- Perversion
- Abuse
- misrepresentation
- distortion
- corruption
- misinterpretation
- caricature
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SOPHISTRY)
- Enlighten
- guide
- remunerate
- compensate
- undeceive
- disabuse
- Reason
- argue
- enunciate
- investigate
- discuss
- Fix
- fasten
- locate
- insert
- pitch
- plant
- place
Related words: (words related to SOPHISTRY)
- PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - ARTIFICER
A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - CORRUPTIONIST
One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - BLUNDERHEAD
A stupid, blundering fellow. - ARGUE
1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as, - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - REASONLESS
1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - SHIFT
divide; akin to LG. & D. schiften to divide, distinguish, part Icel. skipta to divide, to part, to shift, to change, Dan skifte, Sw. skifta, and probably to Icel. skifa to cut into slices, as n., a 1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. To - REASONABLY
1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder. - BLUNDERER
One who is apt to blunder. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - REINSERT
To insert again. - AUCTION PITCH
A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster. - TERRORLESS
Free from terror. Poe. - REDARGUE
To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, - SELF-DELUSION
The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.