Do not, under the too plausible sophism of upholding non-intervention, provoke American intervention on distant European soil.
And permit me to say, it is a childish sophism to adduce any physical or mental inequality in argument against Equality of Rights.
This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole of its currency from the assumption that there is some omnipotent and sacred supremacy pertaining to a State--to each State of our Federal Union.
They invented an ingenious sophism which, if conceded, was followed by perfectly logical steps, through all the incidents, to the complete destruction of the Union.
The sophism itself is that any State of the Union may consistently with the national Constitution, and therefore lawfully and peacefully, withdraw from the Union without the consent of the Union or of any other State.
A celebrated modern philosopher has added to the categories of Aristotle, the sophism which consists in including in one word the begging of the question.
We will return to the Sophism drawn from internal taxes.
Our ignorance is the "raw material" of all extortion which is practised upon us, and we may be sure in advance that every sophism is the forerunner of a spoliation.
Owing to the sophism which we are about to unveil, the petitioners merely reproduced the doctrine of protection to national labor, adding to it, however, another folly.
Sometimes a sophism dilates itself, and penetrates through the whole extent of a long and heavy theory.
This, it must certainly be perceived, by an attentive investigation, is the result of the Sophism in question.
But then it is a sophism to argue from thence that this immunity is the cause of my delight either on these or on any occasions.
He had already faced and partly evaded this dilemma in his Springfield speech of 1857, but that was a local declaration and occurred before his Lecompton revolt, and the ingenious sophism then put forth had attracted little notice.
For the moment, however, the sophism doubtless satisfied his many warm partisans.
Corresponding to these philosophical fallacies we notice a peculiar sophism in the speech of many peoples, especially the Germans.
The declaration is an awkward attempt to saturate sophism with truism; but thesophism is left largely in excess.
Every such government is founded on the assumption that man is God, which is a great mistake--is, in fact, the fundamental sophism which underlies every error and every sin.
And yet I have heard the miserable sophism of unprincipled power against which it was directed--a sophism so insulting to the dignity of honest poverty--a thousand times repeated.
Here commences the strife between sophism and common sense, between false science and natural truth, between good and bad philosophy, both of which come from free reflection.
How much place you leave for sophismin that complaisant and enigmatical law of general interest!
We always have sophisms at our disposal, in order to persuade ourselves that our true interest is to satisfy present passion; but sophism has less influence over the mind when the mind is in some sort defended by the heart.
The common way of showing up the sophism here is by pointing out the ambiguity of the expression 'never can overtake.
This proportionality of the shortness of the times to that of the spaces required frees us, it is claimed, from the sophism which the word 'never' suggests.
Büchner damages his cause; but, under forms, often more subtle and more intelligent, the same sophism turns up in all systems of materialism.
In pursuance of this design, there is another sophism of theirs, which it now devolves upon us to examine.
This sophism has been already sufficiently refuted.
The sophism which I am now combating has its root in the infinite divisibility which belongs to value, as it does to matter.
This, it must be perceived, by an attentive investigation, is the result of the Sophism in question.
A celebrated modern Philosopher has added to the categories of Aristotle the Sophism which consists in expressing in one word a petitio principii.
A Sophism will sometimes expand and extend itself through the whole tissue of a long and tedious theory.
Good Public, whenever therefore you detect a Sophism in a petition, let me advise you, put your hand upon your pocket, for be assured, it is that which is particularly the point of attack.
Thanks to the Sophism which I would now endeavor to deprive of its disguise, the petitioners only reproduced, with an additional incongruity, the old doctrine of protection to national labor.
It is the genius of Sophismwhich paralyzes this resistance.
In this sophism you admit the premisses but deny the conclusion, in contradiction with a well-known rule of logic.
This is a trick which may be regarded as identical with the sophism ex homonymia; although, if the sophism is obvious, it will deceive no one.
But if thesophism takes a subtle form, it is, of course, apt to mislead, especially where the conceptions which are covered by the same word are related, and inclined to be interchangeable.
This objection disconcerted them a little, but they always reverted to their argument, phrased in different ways, until they were brought to understand where the fault of the sophism lies.
The sophism which ends in a decision to trouble oneself over nothing will haply be useful sometimes to induce certain people to face danger fearlessly.
Cousin, we assume it to be the basis of the domain of property, we fall into the sophism called sophisma amphiboliae vel ambiguitatis, which consists in changing the meaning by a verbal equivocation.
Above all he had the power, dangerous to Douglas, of seizing the most ingenious and artfully concealed sophism and good naturedly dragging it to the light.
There was not an image profane poetry could afford him, nor a sophism he could borrow from rhetoric, nor wily interpretation he could give to the Word of God, which he did not employ to convert me to his wishes.
The sophism which I am here combating will not stand the test of progression, which is the touchstone of principles.
The sophism which this work is intended to refute is the more dangerous when applied to public works, inasmuch as it serves to justify the most wanton enterprises and extravagance.
The sophism of the Socialists on this point is, showing to the public what it pays to the intermediates in exchange for their services, and concealing from it what is necessary to be paid to the State.
This sophism will not stand examination, when we extend our regards beyond the mere circulation of money, and see that at the bottom it is labour exchanged for labour, services for services.
The wholesophism consists in omitting the words, /for each determinate result/.
We may remark, also, that the sophism of the rebound may be invoked by the poor in their turn.
We encounter here a sophism analogous to the one we have already refuted on the subject of the interest of capital.
The sophism of the rebound, of the reflex influence, has got too firmly into their heads.
Were this system of spoliation carried on by them directly, and without the intervention of the law, the sophism would become transparent.
If at daybreak he observed a Protectionist sophism appear in a newspaper of any reputation," says M.
We set down this observation here, in order to elude a very widely-spread sophism which springs from the consideration of money.
But this reason, by some deemed conclusive, is nevertheless exceedingly futile; it labors under the sophism called by dialecticians begging of the question, for it supposes what was to be proved.
What I object to in your system is that you suppose true the very thing which I deny, and so fall into the sophism named by logicians petitio principii.
This sophism derives much, perhaps the whole, of its currency from the assumption that there is some omnipotent and sacred supremacy pertaining to a State--to each State of our Federal Union.
