Classes
Intellectual Faculties
Reasoning Processes
477. Intuition. Sophistry [The absence of reasoning.] [False or vicious reasoning; show of reason.]
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. .