Sentence Examples

  • When at a loss for good reasons, he had recourse to sophistry; and when heated by altercation, he made unsparing use of sarcasm and invective.
  • They are a strange blend of sophistry, superstition, sound sense and solid argument.
  • The wheel being her symbol she was the patron saint of wheelwrights and mechanics; as the confounder of heathen sophistry she was invoked by theologians, apologists, preachers and philosophers, and was chosen as the patron saint of the university of Paris; as the most holy and illustrious of Christian virgins she became the tutelary saint of nuns and virgins generally.
  • - Sophistry arose out of a crisis in philosophy.
  • It would seem then that even in its decline sophistry had its educational use.
 
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