Sophism
41Absurdity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Absurdity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 absurdity absurdity absurdness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 imbecility imbecility &c. 499 Sgm: N 1 alogy| alogy| nonsense Sgm: N 1 paradox paradox …
42sophomore — 1680s, student in the second year of university study, lit. arguer, altered from sophumer (1650s, from sophume, archaic variant form of SOPHISM (Cf. sophism)), probably by influence of folk etymology derivation from Gk. sophos wise + moros… …
43sophistry — noun 1) to claim this is pure sophistry Syn: specious reasoning, fallacy, sophism, casuistry 2) a speech full of sophistries Syn: fallacious argument, sophism, fallacy; Logic paralogism …
44sophomore — ► NOUN N. Amer. ▪ a second year university or high school student. DERIVATIVES sophomoric adjective. ORIGIN probably from sophum, sophom (obsolete variants of SOPHISM(Cf. ↑sophism)) …
45sophomoric — sophomore ► NOUN N. Amer. ▪ a second year university or high school student. DERIVATIVES sophomoric adjective. ORIGIN probably from sophum, sophom (obsolete variants of SOPHISM(Cf. ↑sophism)) …
46sophomore — [säf′môr΄, säf′ə môr΄] n. [altered (< Gr sophos, wise + mōros, foolish) < older sophumer < sophum, sophism, prob. < ME sophime, SOPHISM] 1. a student in the second year of college or the tenth grade in high school ☆ 2. a person in his …
47Caption — Cap tion, n. [L. captio, fr. caper to take. In senses 3 and 4, perhaps confounded in meaning with L. caput a head. See {Capacious}.] 1. A caviling; a sophism. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] This doctrine is for caption and contradiction. Bacon. [1913… …
48Desophisticate — De so*phis ti*cate, v. t. To clear from sophism or error. [R.] Hare. [1913 Webster] …
49Elench — E*lench ([ e]*l[e^][ng]k ), n.; pl. {Elenchs}. [L. elenchus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to convict, confute, prove: cf. OF. elenche.] (Logic) (a) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an antagonist; a… …
50Elenchs — Elench E*lench ([ e]*l[e^][ng]k ), n.; pl. {Elenchs}. [L. elenchus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to convict, confute, prove: cf. OF. elenche.] (Logic) (a) That part of an argument on which its conclusiveness depends; that which convinces of refutes an… …
