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What does sophistry mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) Cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.
  2. (uncountable) The art of using deceptive speech or writing.
  3. (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
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By contrast, when we turn to Gongsun Long, we encounter a disputer who may have been devoted to sophistry purely for sophistry's sake.
The property was derelict, and the cows, mostly rejects from other herds, were no respecters of finely-nuanced sophistry.
Gone is sophistry, the elegance of understatement, the joy of imagining the concealed, regaling in the revealed.
No sophistry and no syllogisms can conjure away this inevitable consequence of inflation.
Understanding this merely requires a grand exercise in Orwellian doublethink, Greek sophistry and a uniquely Lawloresque take on the world.
No ingenious sophistry can overthrow this fact of experience.

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