Examples of 'sophistic' in a sentence

Meaning of "sophistic"

Sophistic is an adjective that describes something as being clever, but in a way that is deceptive or misleading. It may refer to arguments, reasoning, or methods that are superficially plausible but ultimately flawed
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  • Pertaining to the ancient sophists.
  • Sophistical.
  • The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.
  • Alternative letter-case form of sophistic (“pertaining to the sophists”)

How to use "sophistic" in a sentence

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Dismantles the sophistic embrace of absolute relativism.
Obviously this is a sophistic game.
It is sophistic and provincial.
We can be classy and sophistic.
And it is especially sophistic if it leaves out a majority of facts.
Rather than the sophistic.
You are being sophistic they are two different things the truth is revealed through debates.
One of them is sophistic thought.
Their sophistic lawyers were instrumental in the drafting of the Constitution.
Aspects of sophistic pedagogy.
Atticism was a trend of the Second Sophistic.
Socrates also questioned the Sophistic doctrine that arete virtue can be taught.
He was a sophist in Rome Second Sophistic era.
The sophists can, or sophistic thought can lead to a kind of nihilism.
This argument is sophistic.

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And the other great sophistic antithesis is between justice and advantage, or.
The province of Asia embraced the Second Sophistic the most.
It was an arbitrary and sophistic act… a shame for the Superior electoral Court.
More and more elaborated, the perfume of cosmetics is sophistic.
Plato depicts Clitophon as a close associate with the sophistic rhetorician Thrasymachus and the orator Lysias.
But I am skeptical of that argument ; it seems sophistic.
His talk then took a sophistic turn through a wandering reflection on conscience, act, norm, and discernment.
I considered his lawyer 's arguments sophistic and irrelevant.
Sophistic Refutations ( written by Aristotle ).
Plato diagnoses this problem as a derivative of sophistic reading of parmenides ' poem.
Polemon was a master rhetoric, a prominent member of the Second Sophistic.
In Epictetus there are two exercises, sophistic and ethical.
Oh, look at the funbags on that hosehound . We can be classy and sophistic.
To us, the phrase ‘ the book of life ' is a sophistic antinomy or cliche.
I do not accept this argument, which I find sophistic.
The presentation quickly collapses under Steve Bannon 's sophistic questioning.
It 's very smart and very sophistic.

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