05895138-n 'a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone';
 
Chinese (simplified) 谬论 , 诡辩
English sophistication ( ⊳ ) , sophism ( ⊳ ⊳ ) , sophistry
Indonesian sofisme
Italian sofisma , sofisticheria
Japanese 屁理屈 , 詭弁 , こじつけ
Definitions
English
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
Japanese
だれかをだますことを希望して推理における巧みさを表示する故意に無効の議論
Relations
Hypernym: fallacy
Semantic Field: cognitionn
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