Hypertext Webster Gateway: "sophistry"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Sophistry \Soph"ist*ry\, n. [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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
sophistry
n : a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {sophism}]
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