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tongue in cheek collapse

misguidance collapse

misdirection collapse: incorrect directions or instructions; an incorrect charge to a jury given by a judge

school of thought collapse

phenomenology collapse: a philosophical doctrine proposed by Edmund Husserl based on the study of human experience in which considerations of objective reality are not taken into account

epistemology collapse: the philosophical theory of knowledge

ontology collapse: the metaphysical study of the nature of being and existence

metaphysics collapse: the philosophical study of being and knowing

inductive reasoning collapse

aesthetics collapse: (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art); "traditional aesthetics assumed the existence of universal and timeless criteria of artistic value"

gamesmanship collapse: the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game

guile collapse

shrewdness collapse: intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)

stealth collapse: avoiding detection by moving carefully

specious reasoning collapse

cosmology collapse: the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe; the metaphysical study of the origin and nature of the universe

rationalism collapse: the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct; (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience; the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth

non sequitur collapse: (logic) a conclusion that does not follow from the premises; a reply that has no relevance to what preceded it

paralogism collapse: an unintentionally invalid argument

inventiveness collapse: the power of creative imagination

plausibility collapse: apparent validity

ethics collapse: the philosophical study of moral values and rules

ratiocination collapse: logical and methodical reasoning

hysteron proteron collapse: the logical fallacy of using as a true premise a proposition that is yet to be proved; reversal of normal order of two words or sentences etc. (as in `bred and born')

one upmanship collapse

misleading collapse

sophism collapse: a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

logic collapse: reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"; a system of reasoning; the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation; "economic logic requires it"; "by the logic of war"; the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations; the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference

weak point collapse: an attribute that is inadequate or deficient

circularity collapse: the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure

solecism collapse

philosophy collapse: any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; "self-indulgence was his only philosophy"; "my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it"; the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics

mystification collapse: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered; something designed to mystify or bewilder

sophistication collapse: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"; the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment; being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

speciousness collapse: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"

canniness collapse

claptrap collapse

moonshine collapse: whiskey illegally distilled from a corn mash; distill (alcohol) illegally; produce moonshine

vicious circle collapse: an argument that assumes that which is to be proved; one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

insincerity collapse: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

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