7 example sentences using sophistry.
Sophistry used in a sentence
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It's a nice bit of sophistry the writer uses to blame the developer rather than the company.
Human judges generally react poorly to outright sophistry, where computers don't mind it one bit.
Instead, they will say that the farmer's argument here that the "bean did it" is pure sophistry and a way of subverting the plain purpose of the law.
Sugar- the Bitter Truth is one of the finest examples of manipulative sophistry I've ever seen.
The evil part is that they're subsuming their benevolence under sophistry to convince people to send them all of their internet activity.
I think PG's background as an actual programmer and having a computational paradigm versus Arrington's sophistry is an underlying factor here too.
The "nothing to hide -> nothing to fear" sophistry is about shifting the basis of judgement from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty until proven innocent," replacing reason with superstition.
Sophistry definitions
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
See also: sophism sophistication