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1 chicana
• sophistry -
2 sofismo
• sophistry -
3 sofistería
• sophistry• use of sophisms -
4 sofistería
f.sophistry, hair-splitting, use of sophisms.* * *1 sophistry* * *SF sophistry* * *sophistry* * *sofistería nf: sophistry♦ sofista nmf -
5 argucia
f.1 sophism.2 subterfuge, contrivance, scheme, chicanery.* * *1 sophism, subtlety* * *SF sophistry frm, hair-splittingargucias — nit-picking * sing
* * *femenino cunning argument* * *= trickery, chicanery, scheme, stalking horse, trick, gaff, wheeze.Ex. It is sometimes thought that a woman's trickery compensates for her physical weakness.Ex. With zeal, perseverance, charm, and even chicanery, they recruited and trained the 1st users.Ex. These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.Ex. Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.Ex. But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.Ex. There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.Ex. Last year's profits were more than halved, so the company has come up with a clever wheeze.* * *femenino cunning argument* * *= trickery, chicanery, scheme, stalking horse, trick, gaff, wheeze.Ex: It is sometimes thought that a woman's trickery compensates for her physical weakness.
Ex: With zeal, perseverance, charm, and even chicanery, they recruited and trained the 1st users.Ex: These cuts were a scheme to privatize the cleaning women's jobs, contracting them out to small or big private cleaning firms.Ex: Legalism and pragmatism were the intellectual stalking horses that contributed most to the victory of economic interest over human concerns in this case.Ex: But if variable-length keys are not supported by a data base, various tricks are often necessary to provide access to the library data which has inherently variable-length keys.Ex: There are magicians that choose not to work with gaffs of any type because they want to take magic in new directions.Ex: Last year's profits were more than halved, so the company has come up with a clever wheeze.* * *cunning argumentgracias a las argucias de su abogado thanks to some cunning arguments from o some fancy footwork by his lawyer* * *
argucia sustantivo femenino ruse
* * *argucia nfdeceptive argument* * *f clever argument* * *argucia nf: sophistry, subtlety -
6 mixtificación
f.casuistry, oversubtle reasoning, sophistry.* * * -
7 argucia
• chicanery• sophistry• subterfuge• subtlety• trick up• trickily -
8 filosofismo
m.philosophism, sophistry, free thinking. -
9 sofismo
m.sophistry, deceptive reasoning.
См. также в других словарях:
Sophistry — Soph ist*ry, n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.] 1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only. [1913 Webster] The juggle of sophistry… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
sophistry — I noun casuistry, cavil, chicanery, deception, distortion, equivocation, evasion, evasive reasoning, fallacious reasoning, false logic, misrepresentation, specious reasoning II index casuistry, fallacy, non sequitur, subterfuge … Law dictionary
sophistry — mid 14c., from O.Fr. sophistrie, from M.L. sophistria, from L. sophista, sophistes (see SOPHIST (Cf. sophist)) … Etymology dictionary
sophistry — *fallacy, sophism, casuistry Analogous words: plausibility, speciousness (see corresponding adjectives at PLAUSIBLE): equivocation, *ambiguity, tergiversation: evading or evasion, avoiding or avoidance (see corresponding verbs at ESCAPE) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
sophistry — ► NOUN (pl. sophistries) 1) the use of false arguments, especially to deceive. 2) a false argument … English terms dictionary
sophistry — [säf′is trē] n. pl. sophistries [ME sophistrie < ML sophistria] 1. unsound or misleading but clever, plausible, and subtle argument or reasoning; sophism 2. the methods or practices of the Sophists … English World dictionary
sophistry — n. 1) pure sophistry 2) sophistry to + inf. (it s pure sophistry to rationalize such behavior) * * * [ sɒfɪstrɪ] pure sophistry sophistry to + inf. (it s pure sophistry to rationalize such behavior) … Combinatory dictionary
sophistry — soph|ist|ry [ˈsɔfıstri US ˈsa: ] n plural sophistries [U and C] formal [Date: 1300 1400; : Medieval Latin; Origin: sophistria, from Latin sophista one who uses sophistry , from Greek sophistes wise man, teacher of knowledge, user of sophistry ,… … Dictionary of contemporary English
sophistry — [[t]sɒ̱fɪstri[/t]] N UNCOUNT Sophistry is the practice of using clever arguments that sound convincing but are in fact false. [FORMAL] Political selection is more dependent on sophistry and less on economic literacy … English dictionary
sophistry — UK [ˈsɒfɪstrɪ] / US [ˈsɑfɪstrɪ] noun [countable/uncountable] Word forms sophistry : singular sophistry plural sophistries formal arguments or explanations that seem clever and correct but are really false and used for tricking people … English dictionary
sophistry — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sophism; false or specious reasoning; casuistry; fallaciousness, paralogism; shift, subterfuge, equivocation; absurdity, inconsistency; hair splitting. See falsehood. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. sophism,… … English dictionary for students