Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Intuition. Sophistry (The absence of reasoning)

Nouns
  • intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling
  • presentiment, premonition
  • rule of thumb
  • superstition
  • astrology
  • faith (supposition) Supposition. sophistry, paralogy, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion
  • chicane, chicanery
  • quiddet, quiddity
  • mystification
  • special pleading
  • speciousness etc. adj.
  • nonsense etc. Absurdity
  • word sense, tongue sense. false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning
  • non sequitur
  • false teaching etc. Misteaching. sophism, solecism, paralogism
  • quibble, quirk, elenchus, elench, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet
  • inconsistency, antilogy
  • a delusion, a mockery, and a snare" [Denman]
  • claptrap, cant, mere words
  • lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello]. meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry
  • flaw in an argument
  • weak point, bad case. overrefinement
  • hairsplitting etc. v..
Verbs
  • judge intuitively, judge by intuition
  • hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random. reason ill, falsely etc. adj.
  • misjudge etc. Misjudgment
  • paralogize. take on faith, take as a given
  • assume (supposition) Supposition. pervert, quibble
  • equivocate, mystify, evade, elude
  • gloss over, varnish
  • misteach etc. Misteaching
  • mislead etc. (error) Error
  • cavil, refine, subtilize, split hairs
  • misrepresent etc. (lie) Falsehood. beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion. cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on. judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions (misjudgment) Misjudgment.
Adjectives
  • intuitive, instinctive, impulsive
  • independent of reason, anterior to reason
  • gratuitous, hazarded
  • unconnected. unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid
  • unwarranted, not following
  • inconsequent, inconsequential
  • inconsistent
  • absonous, absonant
  • unscientific
  • untenable, inconclusive, incorrect
  • fallacious, fallible
  • groundless, unproved
  • it does not follow. deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical
  • illusive, illusory
  • specious, hollow, plausible, evasive
  • irrelevant etc. [Want, or absence of relation.] Irrelation. weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague. irrational
  • nonsensical etc. (absurd) Absurdity. foolish etc. (imbecile) Imbecility. Folly
  • frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling
  • finespun, overrefined. at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.
Adverbs
  • intuitively etc. adj.
  • by intuition
  • illogically etc. adj..
Phrases
  • that goes for nothing.