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noun, plural -ries.
1.
a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.
2.
a false argument; sophism.
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sophistry
mid-14c., from O.Fr. sophistrie, from M.L. sophistria, from L. sophista, sophistes (see sophist).
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