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11idle — adj 1. inactive, unoccupied, at leisure, doing nothing; unemployed, workless, out of work, not working, jobless, out of a job, Inf. collecting, on the dole, on welfare; vagrant, Inf. on the bum. 2. unfilled, vacuous, vacant, empty, not in use,… …
12illogical — adj unreasoning, unreasonable, irrational; unsound, absurd, preposterous, Sl. far out, Sl. screwy, Sl. wacky, Sl. nutty; sophistic, casuistic, fallacious, wrong, Logic. paralogistic; fallible, untenable, unproved; contradictory, incongruous,… …
13quibbling — adj 1. carping, caviling, pettifogging, hairsplitting, niggling, Inf. nitpicking; Jesuitical, sophistical, casuistic, Logic. paralogistic; critical, hypercritical, captious, censorious, overcritical, faultfinding. 2. prevaricative, prevaricatory …
14sophistic — adj fallacious, false, unsound, faulty, flawed, imperfect, Inf. full of holes; inaccurate, specious, spurious, erroneous, mistaken, incorrect, Logic. paralogistic; quibbling, casuistical, subtle, captious, Jesuitic, Jesuitical, sophisticated;… …
15specious — adj plausible, possible, conceivable, believable, likely, probable, tenable; seeming, apparent, appearing, ostensible, presumable, Archaic. semblable; supposed, presumed, reputed, inferred; professed, claimed, purported, avowed, alleged, so… …
16unsound — adj 1. diseased, in poor health, unhealthy, infirm, decrepit, sick, sickly, ailing, ill, unwell; pathological, morbid, afflicted, affected, infected; laid up, off one s feed, indisposed; deranged, abnormal, unbalanced, unhinged; demented, crazy,… …
17untenable — adj indefensible, insupportable, unarguable, unmaintainable, unsustainable, undefendable, refutable; weak, flawed, faulty, specious, implausible; illogical, groundless, baseless, unreasonable, Both Logic. paralogical, paralogistic; contestable,… …
18paralogism — /pəˈrælədʒɪzəm/ (say puh raluhjizuhm) noun 1. a piece of false or fallacious reasoning, especially (distinguished from sophism) one of whose falseness the reasoner is not conscious. 2. reasoning of this kind. {Greek paralogismos false reasoning}… …
19paralogism — n. illogical or fallacious deduction. ♦ paralogical, ♦ paralogistic, a. ♦ paralogize, v.i. be illogical; draw unwarranted conclusions. ♦ paralogist, n …
20paralogism — [pə ral′ə jiz΄əm] n. [MFr paralogisme < LL paralogismus < Gr paralogismos < paralogizesthai, to reason illogically < para , beyond (see PARA 1) + logizesthai, to reason < logos, a discourse, reason: see LOGIC] reasoning contrary to …
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