Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Sophistry
Soph′ist-ry
,Noun.
[OE.
sophistrie
, OF. sophisterie
.] 1.
The art or process of reasoning; logic.
[Obs.]
2.
The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
The juggle of
sophistry
consists, for the most part, in usig a word in one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge.
Syn. – See
Fallacy
. Webster 1828 Edition
Sophistry
SOPH'ISTRY
, n.1.
Fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. These men have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their false principles and wretched sophistry.2.
Exercise in logic.