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Webster 1913 Edition

(fĭ-lŏs′ō̍-fĭz’m)

Noun.

[Cf. F.

philosophisme

Spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry.

Carlyle.

Noun.

[Gr. a lover, and sophism.]

The love of fallacious arguments or false reasoning.

The practice of sophistry.

philosophism

spurious philosophy; the love or practice of sophistry
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
  French Philosophism has arisen; in which little word how much do we include! Here, indeed, lies properly the cardinal symptom of the whole wide-spread malady. Faith is gone out; Scepticism is come in.