SOPHISTRY
- subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation.
- deceptively subtle reasoning or argumentation; an argument used to deceive [n SOPHISTRIES]
- The use of fallacious arguments, esp. with the intention of deceiving
- A fallacious argument
- refers to reasoning or arguments that sound correct but which are actually false.
- a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning.