Their first college years were full of logic, mostly derived from Aristotle, who identified 14 main types of valid deduction and 13 key gambits of sophistical trickery.

“Sir, your wife is living: that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical—is false.”

Supreme Court, which accepted New London’s sophistical argument that virtually erased the Constitution’s circumscription of government’s eminent- domain power.

The deeper mystery is why certain conservatives who were once Trump’s fiercest critics have become his most sophistical apologists.

The spread of the sophistical argument that a “diversity of opinions” is the same as “diversity” is worrying.