intuition. & sophistry [the absence of reasoning.] [false or vicious reasoning; show of reason.]

Roget category 477

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.4. Reasoning processes
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#477. Intuition. & Sophistry [The absence of reasoning.] [False or vicious reasoning; show of reason.]

noun

intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling — presentiment, premonition — rule of thumb — superstition — astrology^† — faith (supposition) 514.
sophistry, paralogy^†, perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion — chicane, chicanery — quiddet^†, quiddity — mystification — special pleading — speciousness etc. adj. — nonsense etc. 497 — word sense, tongue sense.
false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning — petitio principii [Lat.], ignoratio elenchi [Lat.] — post hoc ergo propter hoc [Lat.] — non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius [Lat.].
misjudgment etc. 481 — false teaching etc. 538.
sophism, solecism, paralogism^† — quibble, quirk, elenchus^†, elench^†, fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet^† — inconsistency, antilogy^† — a delusion, a mockery, and a snare" [Denman]; claptrap, cant, mere words — lame and impotent conclusion" [Othello]. meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry — flaw in an argument — weak point, bad case.
overrefinement^† — hairsplitting etc. v..

verb

judge intuitively, judge by intuition — hazard a proposition, hazard a guess, talk at random.
reason ill, falsely etc. adj. — misjudge etc. 481 — paralogize^†.
take on faith, take as a given — assume (supposition) 514.
pervert, quibble — equivocate, mystify, evade, elude — gloss over, varnish — misteach etc. 538^† — mislead etc. (error) 495 — cavil, refine, subtilize^†, split hairs — misrepresent etc. (lie) 544.
beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion.
cut blocks with a razor, beat about the bush, play fast and loose, play fast and loose with the facts, blow hot and cold, prove that black is white and white black, travel out of the record, parler a tort et a travers [Fr.], put oneself out of court, not have a leg to stand on.
judge hastily, shoot from the hip, jump to conclusions (misjudgment) 481.

adjective

intuitive, instinctive, impulsive — independent of reason, anterior to reason — gratuitous, hazarded — unconnected.
unreasonable, illogical, false, unsound, invalid — unwarranted, not following — inconsequent, inconsequential — inconsistent — absonous^†, absonant^† — unscientific — untenable, inconclusive, incorrect — fallacious, fallible — groundless, unproved — non sequitur [Lat.], it does not follow.
deceptive, sophistical, jesuitical — illusive, illusory — specious, hollow, plausible, ad captandum [Lat.], evasive — irrelevant etc. 10.
weak, feeble, poor, flimsy, loose, vague.
irrational — nonsensical etc. (absurd) 497.
foolish etc. (imbecile) 499 — frivolous, pettifogging, quibbling — finespun^†, overrefined^†.
at the end of one's tether, au bout de son latin.

adverb

intuitively etc. adj. — by intuition — illogically etc. adj..

phrase

non constat [Lat.] — that goes for nothing.

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