n. 诡辩

[法] 诡辩, 辩术, 诡辩法

[ noun ]
a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone
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Sophistry \Soph"ist*ry\, n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.]
1. The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]

2. 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.

Syn: See {Fallacy}.