SOPHISTRY
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The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion.—COLERIDGE
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To reason justly from a false principle is the perfection of sophistry, which it is more difficult to expose than to refute false reasoning. The proper way to expose its errors is to show that just and conclusive reasonings have been built on some false or absurd principle.—NATHANIEL EMMONS
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Some men weave their sophistry till their own reason is entangled.—SAMUEL JOHNSON
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Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.—RICHARD WHATELY
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