Sentence examples for sophistical argument from inspiring English sources

Kelo lost 4 to 3 in Connecticut's ­Supreme Court and 5 to 4 in the U.S. Supreme Court, which accepted New London's sophistical argument that virtually erased the Constitution's circumscription of government's eminent- ­domain power.

Until this day such a sophistical argument to accomplish overreaching in a business transaction has uniformly been rejected by the courts, and it has been rejected by this Court on basic considerations of 'fair dealing'.

A sophisma or sophism is neither a standard paradox of disputation nor a sophistical argument but a statement the truth of which is in question.

To understand how to resolve a sophistical argument, we must first understand how it could have been believed to be true.

Aristotle is concerned with two types of problems with sophistical argument: first, why such an argument is false; and second, why it might appear to be true.

As for the Second Puzzle, Plato deploys this to show how empiricism has the disabling drawback that it turns an outrageous sophistical argument into a valid disproof of the possibility of at least some sorts of false belief.

Aristotle's study of sophistical arguments is contained in On Sophistical Refutations, which is actually a sort of appendix to the Topics.

Sophistry is good practice for the young and presumably trains them to avoid sophistical argumentation later in life.

This is the same sophistical, insidious argument used to fight racial integration of the military not so very long ago.

Justin has reached middle age with no ambition beyond tending his flower garden, and little use of his intellect beyond fashioning sophistical diplomatic arguments for inaction in the face of injustice.

With the sophistical sophistication that made him one of the highest-paid professors in the United States when he headed Duke University's English Department, Mr. Fish has woven together recent essays into "The Trouble With Principle" (Harvard).