sophistry (n.)
- acuteness
- aesthetics
- ambiguity
- argument
- art
- artfulness
- artifice
- astuteness
- axiology
- casuistry
- claptrap
- cleverness
- corruption
- cosmology
- craft
- craftiness
- cunning
- deception
- deceptiveness
- deduction
- delusion
- demonstration
- discourse
- disingenuousness
- emptiness
- epistemology
- equivocation
- ethics
- fallacy
- finesse
- foxiness
- gamesmanship
- guile
- hollowness
- induction
- ingeniousness
- insidiousness
- insincerity
- inventiveness
- jesuitry
- logic
- metaphysics
- misdirection
- misinformation
- mockery
- moonshine
- mystification
- obfuscation
- obscurantism
- one-upmanship
- ontology
- paralogism
- perversion
- phenomenology
- philosophy
- proof
- ratiocination
- rationalism
- rationality
- rationalization
- readiness
- reason
- reasonableness
- reasoning
- resourcefulness
- sharpness
- shiftiness
- shrewdness
- slipperiness
- slyness
- sneakiness
- solecism
- sophism
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- stealth
- stealthiness
- subtlety
- suppleness
- tergiversation
- trickiness
- wariness
- wiliness
- wit
Destroy his fib or sophistry—in vain!
The creature's at his dirty work again.
