| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| SOPHISM | Specious reasoning |
| CASUISTRY | Specious reasoning |
| casuistry | specious or deceptive reasoning, esp. in questions of morality. |
| sophism | specious argument for displaying ingenuity in reasoning or for deceiving someone |
| sophists | A paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in ancient Greece, associated in popular thought with moral skepticism and specious reasoning |
| argal | therefore: used facetiously to indicate that the reasoning that had gone before or the conclusion that follows is specious or absurd |
