| Clue | Length | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| spuriousness | 7 letters | sophism |
| ||
| spuriousness | 9 letters | sophistry |
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| spuriousness | 12 letters | speciousness |
Likely related crossword puzzle clues
- Specious argument
- Fallacious argument
- Specious reasoning
- Plausible but fallacious argument
- A plausible fallacy
- Faulty argument
- Weak point
- apparent soundness
- Argument
- argument-by-analogy
- argumentum-ad-baculum
- argumentum-ad-captandum
- argumentum-ad-hominem
- bad-case
- begging-the-question
- casuistry
- circular-argument
- circularity
- Claptrap
- crowd-pleasing-argument
- Deception
- deceptiveness
- Delusion
- disingenuousness
- Distortion
- Empty words
- equivocalness
- Equivocation
- evasive reasoning
- fallaciousness
- Fallacy
- formal-fallacy
- hysteron-proteron
- illogicality
- insincere-argument
- Insincerity
- invalidity
- Irrationality
- jesuitism
- Jesuitry
- logical-fallacy
- material-fallacy
- Mere rhetoric
- misapplication
- Moonshine
- Mystification
- non-sequitur
- obfuscation
- obscurantism
- oversubtlety
- paralogism
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- petitio-principii
- philosophism
- Plausibility
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- pseudosyllogism
- Rationalization
- Solecism
- sophistical reasoning
- Sophistication
- Sophistry
- special pleading
- speciosity
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- Subtlety
- unsoundness
- verbal-fallacy
- vicious circle
- vicious reasoning
- clever but false argument
- Choplogic
- Deceptively plausible reasoning
- False argument
- use of false, but clever arguments
- Specious reasoning
- Subterfuge
- perversion
- Refinement
- Fallacy
- Falsehood
- casuistry
- Chicanery
- Shift
- Clarification
- Abuse
- Untruth
- Artifice
- Error
- Blunder
- Misconception
- Bugbear
- Fiction
- Delusion
- Chimera
- Jesuitry
- Quibble
- strawsplitting
- Wit
- Wile
- Weak point
- italian hand
- Acuteness
- Aesthetics
- ambiguity
- Argument
- argument-by-analogy
- argumentum-ad-baculum
- argumentum-ad-captandum
- argumentum-ad-hominem
- Art ......
- Artfulness
- Astuteness
- axiology
- bad-case
- begging-the-question
- cageyness
- callidity
- Canniness
- circular-argument
- Claptrap
- Cleverness
- college of Laputa
- Corruption
- cosmology
- Craft
- Craftiness
- crossed fingers
- crowd-pleasing-argument
- Cunning
- Cunningness
- Deception
- deceptiveness
- Deduction
- Deductive reasoning
- demonstration
- Discourse
- discourse of reason
- discursive reason
- disingenuousness
- Emptiness
- Empty words
- epistemology
- Equivocation
- Ethics
- fine italian hand
- finesse
- first philosophy
- formal-fallacy
- Foxiness
- gamesmanship
- gnosiology
- Guile
- hollow mockery
- hollowness
- hysteron-proteron
- induction
- inductive reasoning
- ingeniousness
- insidiousness
- insincere-argument
- Insincerity
- Inventiveness
- Logic
- logical-fallacy
- Logical thought
- material-fallacy
- mental philosophy
- Mere rhetoric
- metaphysics
- misdirection
- misguidance
- Misinformation
- misinstruction
- misknowledge
- Misleading
- misteaching
- Mockery
- Moonshine
- moral philosophy
- Mystification
- non-sequitur
- obfuscation
- obscurantism
- obscuration
- one upmanship
- ontology
- paralogism
- petitio-principii
- phenomenology
- philosophastry
- philosophic doctrine
- philosophic system
- philosophic theory
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- philosophical speculation
- philosophism
- Philosophy
- Proof
- pseudosyllogism
- Ratiocination
- rationalism
- Rationality
- Rationalization
- rationalizing
- Readiness
- Reason
- reasonableness
- Reasoning
- Resourcefulness
- satanic cunning
- school of philosophy
- School of thought
- science of being
- Sharpness
- shiftiness
- Shrewdness
- slipperiness
- Slyness
- Sneakiness
- Solecism
- sophism
- speciousness
- spuriousness
- Stealth
- Stealthiness
- subtilty
- subtleness
- Subtlety
- Suppleness
- sweet reason
- tergiversation
- theory of beauty
- theory of knowledge
- *Tongue-in-cheek
- Trickiness
- uncandidness
- uncandor
- unfrankness
- value theory
- verbal-fallacy
- Wariness
- Wiles
- Wiliness
- Color
- blandiloquence
- Polish
- Glossiness
- Hue
- Window dressing
- Acting
- Affectation
- apparent character
- apparent soundness
- Appearance
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- attitudinizing
- Bluff
- bluffing
- casuistry
- Cheating
- circularity
- Coloring
- Deception
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- Delusion
- Disguise
- disingenuousness
- Display
- dissemblance
- Dissembling
- Dissimulation
- Distortion
- equivocalness
- Equivocation
- evasive reasoning
- Exteriors
- External appearance
- externals
- Facade
- Face
- Fakery
- faking
- fallaciousness
- Fallacy
- false air
- False front
- False show
- Falsity
- Feigning
- Feint
- four flushing
- Fraud
- Front
- Gaudiness
- Gilt
- Gloss
- "......, humbug!"
- humbuggery
- Imposture
- Insincerity
- jesuitism
- Jesuitry
- Masquerade
- mere externals
- meretriciousness
- misapplication
- Mystification
- obfuscation
- obscurantism
- ostent
- Ostentation
- Outward appearance
- Outward show
- oversubtlety
- perversion
- philosophism
- Plausibility
- plausibleness
- playacting
- POSE
- Posing
- Posture
- Pretense
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- Pretext
- Public image
- Rationalization
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- Seeming
- Semblance
- Sham
- Show ......
- Simulacrum
- simulation
- sophism
- sophistical reasoning
- Sophistication
- Sophistry
- special pleading
- speciosity
- Specious reasoning
- spuriousness
- Subtlety
- Superficiality
- surface appearance
- surface show
- vain show
- Varnish
- vicious circle
- vicious reasoning