How To Use Sophistical In A Sentence
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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
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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
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It is understandable, then, that the proprietors of such establishments scorn us as ‘closed-minded’ for ignoring their sophistical arguments.
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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
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This is the truly disturbing and important story, replete with ironies and sophistical logic.
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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
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The newspapers have at their disposal all manner of sophistical ways around this.
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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
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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
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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.
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The two strangers are not serious; there are jests at the mysteries which precede the enthronement, and he is being initiated into the mysteries of the sophistical ritual.
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God, Thomas, Abp. of Canterbury, unto a crafty and sophistical cavillation devised by Stephen Gardener, "&c.
Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850
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It is the duty of every true friend of humanity and order, to protest against perverted sensibilities or sophistical refinements, which find warrant or apology for depraved appetites, -- for the worst distemperature of the mind, and the most fatal catastrophes, -- in natural propension, and unrestrained feeling.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
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Liberalism "describes the" practical reformer "so that anybody can recognize him:" This revolt against ideas is carried so far that able men have come seriously to look upon progress as a matter for the manipulation of wire-pullers, something to be 'jobbed' in committee by sophistical notions or other clever trickery.
A Preface to Politics
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I am sorry to find you participating in the vulgar error of the _reading public, _ to whom an unusual collocation of words, involving a juxtaposition of antiperistatical ideas, immediately suggests the notion of hyperoxysophistical paradoxology.
Nightmare Abbey
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The philosophies which are "redargued" are divided into three classes, the sophistical, of which the best example is Aristotle, who, according to Bacon, forces nature into his abstract schemata and thinks to explain by definitions; the empirical, which from few and limited experiments leaps at once to general conclusions; and the superstitious, which corrupts philosophy by the introduction of poetical and theological notions.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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Fourteen years after this was made, the idea of robberies from trains, and indeed coshing drivers - coolly omitted from the professor's sophistical account of what harm his thieves have really done - lost a smidgen of its innocence.
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He was so clever, so sophistical, he could twist the very thoughts in a person's mind inside out.
COMPULSION
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Aristotle's study of sophistical arguments is contained in On Sophistical Refutations, which is actually a sort of appendix to the Topics.
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Towards the end of the 16th century in Germany, wine glasses are sophistically engraved as decoration.
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This revolt against ideas is carried so far that able men have come seriously to look upon progress as a matter for the manipulation of wirepullers, something to be 'jobbed' in committee by sophistical motions or other clever trickery.
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
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The evidence of the natural right of expatriation, like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness, is not left to the feeble and sophistical investigations of reason, but is impressed on the sense of every man.
Think Progress » Doocy: ‘All The People Who Tried To Blow Airliners Out Of The Sky Pretty Much Look Alike’
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We admit it is difficult to controvert the charges which Macaulay arrays against him, for so accurate and painstaking an historian is not likely to be wrong in his facts; but we believe that they are uncandidly stated, and so ingeniously and sophistically put as to give on the whole a wrong impression of the man, -- making him out worse than he was, considering his age and circumstances.
Beacon Lights of History
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It is astonishing that these superstitions, in the partial guise of sophistical successor versions, retain any credibility.