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Definition of: sophistry
(sof′is·trē) noun plural ·tries
1. Subtly fallacious reasoning or disputation.
2. The art or methods of the Greek Sophists. Synonyms: casuistry, chicanery, evasion, fallacy, hair–splitting, paralogism, prevarication, quibbling, sophism, subterfuge, trickery.
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