evasive reasoning
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specious reasoning — Synonyms and related words: apparent soundness, casuistry, circularity, deduction, deductive reasoning, demonstration, discourse, discourse of reason, discursive reason, disingenuousness, distortion, equivocalness, equivocation, evasive reasoning … Moby Thesaurus
equivocation — Synonyms and related words: ambiguity, ambivalence, amphibology, antinomy, apparent soundness, avoidance, avoiding reaction, bickering, boggling, captiousness, casuistry, caviling, chicane, chicanery, circularity, circumvention, coloring,… … Moby Thesaurus
rationalization — Synonyms and related words: account, adjustment, alienation, apparent soundness, approach, arrangement, attack, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, blame shifting, blueprint, blueprinting, calculation, casuistry, charting, circularity … Moby Thesaurus
casuistry — Synonyms and related words: Christian ethics, Stoicism, aesthetics, altruistic ethics, apologetics, apologia, apology, apparent soundness, aretaics, argument, argumentation, axiology, bicker, bickering, categorical imperative, circularity,… … Moby Thesaurus
circularity — Synonyms and related words: aduncity, apparent soundness, aquilinity, arching, arcuation, casuistry, circling, circuition, circuitousness, circuitry, circulation, circumambience, circumambiency, circumambulation, circumflexion, circumlocution,… … Moby Thesaurus
distortion — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, abstractionism, abuse of terms, anamorphosis, apparent soundness, bad likeness, birdies, birthmark, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blister, blooping, blurping, botch, bulla, burlesque, caricature,… … Moby Thesaurus
fallacy — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Arianism, Catharism, Ebionitism, Erastianism, Gnosticism, Jovinianism, Lollardy, Manichaeanism, Manichaeism, Monophysism, Monophysitism, Pelagianism, Waldensianism, Wyclifism, aberrancy, aberration,… … Moby Thesaurus
insincerity — Synonyms and related words: Tartuffery, Tartuffism, affectation, affectedness, airs, airs and graces, apparent soundness, artfulness, artificiality, cant, casuistry, circularity, craftiness, credibility gap, crossed fingers, deceitfulness,… … Moby Thesaurus
misapplication — Synonyms and related words: aberrancy, aberration, abuse, abuse of office, abuse of terms, apparent soundness, befoulment, casuistry, catachresis, circularity, contorting, conversion, corrupt administration, debasement, defalcation, defectiveness … Moby Thesaurus
mystification — Synonyms and related words: Chinese puzzle, amorphousness, anagoge, anagogics, anthroposophy, apparent soundness, burial, burying, cabala, cabalism, casuistry, circularity, closed, clouding, college of Laputa, concealedness, concealment,… … Moby Thesaurus
