In addition to vague objections, a wide range of half-truths, sophisms and even flagrant inaccuracies is encountered.
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One cannot mislead and blind people thus formed with the power ofsophismand the trappings of greatness.
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He is ready to treat those philosophical systems that he considers false as simple sophisms, or formally false reasoning.
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He was also an avowed opponent ofsophism.
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Asophismis a false argument intended to mislead.
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This aphorism however, has been criticized as being merely a chimera ofsophism, used mostly for its seductive force rather than its substance.
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Rhetoric is stripped on the ground and tied bysophism.
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In one sense the converse of either a howler or asophismis a mathematical paradox, in which a valid derivation leads to an unexpected or implausible result.
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Sophismapproached rhetoric as an art form.
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