sophistry
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(a) [U] use of sophisms 诡辩术
He won the argument by sophistry. 他靠诡辩赢了那场争论.
(b) [C] instance or example of this 诡辩
the sophistries of the discussion 讨论中的诡辩.
Twenty or thirty pages of information handed to any of the major world powers around the year 1925 would have been sufficient to change the course of world history.