Noun:

ஏமாற்று வாதம்,

sophistry's Usage Examples:

Whereas, when sophistry began, prose composition was hardly practised in central Greece, the sophists were still the leaders in literature and oratory when Plato wrote the Republic, and they had hardly lost their position when Demosthenes delivered the Philippics.

This play does not excoriate hypocrisy: it flirts with sophistry to test our sympathies toward unexpected virtue.

"While he emphasizes in the later sophists the consequences of the fundamental error of sophistry - its indifference to truth - he does honour to the genius and the originality of the leaders of the movement.

With these considerable merits, normal sophistry had one defect, its indifference to truth.

When at a loss for good reasons, he had recourse to sophistry; and when heated by altercation, he made unsparing use of sarcasm and invective.

Now this view is inconsistent with the evidence of Plato, who, in the Sophist, in his final and operative definition, gives prominence to the eristical element, and plainly accounts it the main characteristic not indeed of the sophistry of the 5th century, but of the sophistry of the 4th.

The renewal of interest in classical literature was shown in the prohibition of the study of sophistry by any scholar under the age of eighteen, unless he had been pronounced proficient in grammaticals.

They are a strange blend of sophistry, superstition, sound sense and solid argument.

There is, however, another theory of the significance of Plato's allusions to eristical sophistry, that of Professor H.

In this polymath we see at once the degradation of the sophistry of culture and the link which connects Protagoras and Prodicus with the eristics, who at a later period taught, not, like Hippias, all branches of learning, but a universally applicable method of disputation.

Synonyms:

false belief, sophism, fallacy, sophistication,

Antonyms:

conception, naivete, unenlightenment,