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specious: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

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sophistic collapse: plausible but misleading; of or pertaining to sophists

jesuitical collapse: having qualities characteristic of Jesuits or Jesuitism; "Jesuitical education"

phantasmagoric collapse: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"

in name only collapse

all in the mind collapse

untenable collapse

inductive reasoning collapse

illusionist collapse

avowed collapse

prestidigitation collapse: manual dexterity in the execution of tricks

professed collapse

disingenuous collapse: not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"

plausible collapse: apparently reasonable and valid, and truthful; "a plausible excuse"; given to or characterized by presenting specious arguments; "a plausible liar"

specious reasoning collapse

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

phantasmal collapse

plausibility collapse: apparent validity

gilded collapse: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

illusive collapse: based on or having the nature of an illusion; "illusive hopes of finding a better job"; "Secret activities offer presidents the alluring but often illusory promise that they can achieve foreign policy goals without the bothersome debate and open decision that are staples of democracy"

pretended collapse

chimerical collapse: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

ratiocination collapse: logical and methodical reasoning

glossy collapse: a photograph that is printed on smooth shiny paper; (of paper and fabric and leather) having a surface made smooth and glossy especially by pressing between rollers; "calendered paper"; "a dress of glossy sateen"; having a smooth, gleaming surface; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters"

idealization collapse: a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"; something that exists only as an idea; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

sorcerer collapse: one who practices magic or sorcery

sophistical collapse

so called collapse

ostensible collapse: represented or appearing as such; pretended; "His ostensible purpose was charity, his real goal popularity"

alleged collapse: declared but not proved; "alleged abuses of housing benefits"- Wall Street Journal

hypocritical collapse: professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"

misleading collapse

seeming collapse

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

delusive collapse: inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes"

sorcery collapse: the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world

incorrect collapse: not correct; not in conformity with fact or truth; "an incorrect calculation"; "the report in the paper is wrong"; "your information is wrong"; "the clock showed the wrong time"; "found themselves on the wrong road"; "based on the wrong assumptions"

overrefined collapse: excessively delicate or refined

untrue collapse: not true to an obligation or trust; "is untrue to his highest opportunity and duty"-Bruno Laske; not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"

artful collapse: marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft; "the artful dodger"; "an artful choice of metaphors"

sleight of hand collapse

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