sophism (n.)
- argument
- casuistry
- circularity
- claptrap
- deception
- deceptiveness
- delusion
- disingenuousness
- distortion
- equivocalness
- equivocation
- fallaciousness
- fallacy
- illogicality
- insincerity
- invalidity
- irrationality
- jesuitism
- jesuitry
- misapplication
- moonshine
- mystification
- obfuscation
- obscurantism
- paralogism
- perversion
- plausibility
- plausibleness
- rationalization
- solecism
- sophistication
- sophistry
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- subtlety
- unsoundness