sophistry

• “Several in company checked him from time to time for his bitter reflections instead of arguments, and wished him, if he could to answer my arguments, which he called sophistry, assuring him that until he did, they must receive my opinion and arguments as scriptural and sound reasoning.”

  Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.

• “The people who have attained the levers of government power have demonstrated considerable skill in sophistry in order to obtain power that was not intended to be granted.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Help Draft the Federalism Restoration Amendment

• “Furthermore, this piece of sophistry from the Catholic League conveniently ignores the fact that there is no statistical correlation between homosexuality and pedophilia (despite what some people may choose to believe) and the majority of adults charged with sexual exploitation of minors are not gay but straight — including many who are married and have children of their own.”

  Think Progress » Catholic League: Church Abuse Scandal Is A Crisis Of ‘Homosexuality,’ Not ‘Pedophilia’

• “And yet when all the sophistry is boiled down, the theory amounts to living things are complicated.”

  2008 June - Telic Thoughts

• “There is a kind of sophistry, which is adapted to all ages, and to all countries; I mean that turn of mind which judgeth those vices in which we have no share.”

  Internet Archive: Sermons translated from the original French of the late Rev. James Saurin, pastor of the French church at the Hague

• “Unless you've studied both the paper and Behe's response to it why would you fling the label sophistry around?”

  Behe

• “Thoughts on "philosophy otherwise known as sophistry”

  [philosophy] otherwise known as sophistry

• “However, it is sheer sophistry, that is, “subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation,” of which Senator Kerry should be ashamed”

  John Kerry, Excommunicated?

• “And do you call it fair to persecute, in this way, at the instigation of a proud aristocrat (he had already learned this slang sophistry), a young man, who is almost a stranger among you?”

  Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.”

  The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1

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