SOPHISTRY

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]

2.
n.

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.