A specious argument designed to defend an action or feeling.
The process of answering practical questions via interpretation of rules, or of cases that illustrate such rules, especially in ethics; case-based reasoning.
Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
An intentional fallacy.