sophistry

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

SOPH'ISTRY, noun 1. Fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. These men have obscured and confounded the nature of things by their false principles and wretched sophistry 2. Exercise in logic.
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