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   Sophistry , n. [OE. sophistrie, OF. sophisterie.]
    The art or process of reasoning; logic. [Obs.]
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   The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
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   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.
   
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   Syn. -- See Fallacy.
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