sophism

• The advocates of Slavery have taken refuge in the last covert of desperate sophism, and affirm that their institution is of Divine ordination, that its bases are laid in the nature of man. —  The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
• The sophism is the same. —  Sophisms of the Protectionists
• It must be confessed that our French writers are the only ones who can in this manner every morning embellish the same sophism, and who hug themselves in the very superfluity of servitude. —  Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.
• Let nobody tell me that this is a sophism, and that the one includes the other. —  Without Dogma
• But, above all things, you should beware of imposing on yourself by that vulgar sophism which is called IGNORATIO ELENCHI. —  Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous

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