English Dictionary

sophism

noun

(uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.

He used sophism to deceive the audience.

意味（1）

(uncountable, historical) The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.

Within the framework of democracy a new ideology, born of sophism, took root and proclaimed the rights of the individual in all spheres, political as well as moral.

意味（2）

(countable) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.

The hope of improvement is a quality at once so strong and so excellent in the human mind, that I, for one, disapprove of any sophism—or, if you will, argument—that tends to repress it.

意味（3）

(countable) An intentional fallacy.

意味（4）

(uncountable) Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.

What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?