Category:Sophistry

Soph"ist*ry, n. Etym: [oe. sophistrie, of. sophisterie.]

1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [obs.]

2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound In appearance only. The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in usig a word In one sense in the premise, and in another sense in the conclusion. Coleridge.

Syn. -- see fallacy.