specious reasoning

specious reasoning
Synonyms and related words:
apparent soundness, casuistry, circularity, deduction, deductive reasoning, demonstration, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disingenuousness, distortion, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning, fallaciousness, fallacy, induction, inductive reasoning, insincerity, jesuitism, jesuitry, logical thought, misapplication, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism, oversubtlety, perversion, philosophism, philosophy, plausibility, plausibleness, proof, ratiocination, rationalism, rationality, rationalization, rationalizing, reason, reasonableness, reasoning, sophism, sophistical reasoning, sophistication, sophistry, special pleading, speciosity, speciousness, subtlety, sweet reason, vicious circle, vicious reasoning

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  • specious reasoning — index non sequitur, sophistry Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

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  • reasoning — n. 1) cogent, logical, plausible, solid, sound reasoning 2) faulty; shrewd; specious reasoning 3) deductive; inductive reasoning 4) reasoning that + clause (her reasoning that the crime had been committed elsewhere proved to be true) * * * [… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • specious — adjective Etymology: Middle English, visually pleasing, from Latin speciosus beautiful, plausible, from species Date: 1513 1. obsolete showy 2. having deceptive attraction or allure 3. having a false look of truth or genuineness ; sophistic …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • specious — adjective specious reasoning Syn: misleading, deceptive, false, fallacious, unsound, spurious, casuistic, sophistic …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • reasoning — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ careful, sound ▪ circular, faulty, flawed, specious (formal) ▪ underlying ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

  • specious — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. plausible, ostensible, apparent, casuistic, insincere; deceptive. See falsehood, imagination.Ant., logical, sincere. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. plausible, credible, colorable, beguiling, deceptive …   English dictionary for students

  • specious — adj. Specious is used with these nouns: ↑argument, ↑reasoning …   Collocations dictionary

  • inductive reasoning — Synonyms and related words: Baconian method, a fortiori reasoning, a posteriori reasoning, a priori reasoning, analysis, deduction, deductive reasoning, demonstration, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, epagoge, generalization,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • Speciousness — Specious Spe cious, a. [L. speciosusgood looking, beautiful, specious, fr. species look, show, appearance; cf. F. sp[ e]coeux. See {Species}.] 1. Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy. [1913 Webster] Some [serpents]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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