سَفْسَطة

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Verbal noun of safsata (Sophistry).

🇬🇧 Translation:

(Philosophy) An intellectual trend that originated in Greece five centuries BC as a result of the impotence that afflicted philosophy, religion, and politics. Initially, it meant learning the rules of rhetoric, studying history, the arts of nature, and knowing rights and duties. Then it was limited to the art of debate and the desire to win without commitment to truth and virtue, and became synonymous with the words deception and misleading (Sophistry).

🇬🇧 Translation:

A syllogism composed of illusions, the purpose of which is to silence the opponent, or a false syllogism intended to camouflage facts and silence the opponent (Sophism/Fallacy).