sophistical
11sophistical — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, apparently sound, arch, artful, astute, cagey, canny, casuistic, clever, colorable, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deceptive, deep, deep laid, designing, diplomatic, dishonest,… …
12sophistical — adj. of or pertaining to sophists; fallacious, unsound, not based on facts; misleading, deceptive …
13sophistical — a. Fallacious, illogical, quibbling, unsound …
14sophistical — so·phis·ti·cal …
15sophistical — adjective plausible but misleading • Syn: ↑sophistic • Similar to: ↑invalid • Derivationally related forms: ↑sophist, ↑sophist (for: ↑sophistic), ↑ …
16On Sophistical Refutations — (or De Sophisticis Elenchis ) is a text in Aristotle s Organon.Aristotle identified thirteen fallacies, as follows:;Verbal fallacies * Accent or emphasis * Amphibology * Equivocation * Composition * Division * Figure of speech;Material fallacies… …
17Organon — This article is about Aristotle s works on logic. For other uses, see Organon (disambiguation). For a discussion of Aristotelian logic as a system, see term logic. Part of a series on …
18Aristotle — /ar euh stot l/, n. 384 322 B.C., Greek philosopher: pupil of Plato; tutor of Alexander the Great. * * * born 384, Stagira died 322 BC, Chalcis Greek philosopher and scientist whose thought determined the course of Western intellectual history… …
19Twelfth century (The) — The twelfth century John Marenbon INTRODUCTION The twelfth century began and ended with events which mark it off, at least symbolically, as a discrete period in the history of Western philosophy. It was in about 1100 that Abelard the most wide… …
20fallacy — fallacy, sophism, sophistry, casuistry are comparable when meaning unsound and misleading reasoning or line of argument. The same distinctions in implications and connotations are distinguishable in the corresponding adjectives fallacious,… …
