Sophistry

(n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.

(n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.

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• It presented itself to her, with no sophistry upon it, in its own plain nature. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Humphrey, that is all sophistry, and you know it, said his wife. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I may feel--nay, know--that in uniting herself to Mr Rokesmith she has united herself to one who is, in spite of shallow sophistry, a Mendicant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• This I believe in; but this court should also contain at least two scientific men, who would not be blind to the sophistry of paid experts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• For him the teachings of Adam Smith and Turgot were idle sophistries. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Duty is duty, John, and no amount of sophistries may change it. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.

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