How To Use sophistical In A Sentence
- a dozen religions: some of them barbarous; some cynical and pessimistic; some amoristic and romantic; some sceptical and challenging; some kindly, simple, and intuitional; some sophistical and intellectual; none suited to the character and conditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and has never been put into practice by any State before or since. Treatise on Parents and Children
- This, my Lord, you are permitted to do; they have no means of resistance; but think not to impose on me by a sophistical assertion of right, or to gloss the villainy of your conduct with the colours of justice; the artifice is beneath the desperate force of your character, and is not sufficiently specious to deceive the discernment of virtue. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
- It is understandable, then, that the proprietors of such establishments scorn us as ‘closed-minded’ for ignoring their sophistical arguments.
- The tragedy and scandal of American legal education is that it tutors idealistic law students to become sophistical, eristic war-makers through the study of appellate litigation for that small portion of matters that will bring them to court, instead of relying on a case method instructing them on how to reconcile opposing viewpoints and settle disputes without recourse to litigation. Wild Rice
- This is the truly disturbing and important story, replete with ironies and sophistical logic.
- That it is extremely to the dishonour of Jesus Christ, destructive to the gospel faith and all solid consolation, and forces men either to a familistical contempt or sophistical corrupting of the word of God in its defence. The Death of Death in the Death of Christ
- The newspapers have at their disposal all manner of sophistical ways around this.
- Your leading abolitionists are as much affected by satanophany as your leading confederates, nor are they one whit more philosophical or less sophistical. The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny
- However, he also studies what he calls contentious (eristikos) or sophistical arguments: these he defines as arguments which only apparently establish their conclusions. Aristotle's Logic
- But I was being sophistical when I responded to their claims that our government is our enemy with that other cliché, you are the government.