From:	James Dening james.dening@****.co.uk
Subject:	[RE: [RE: [Re: [RE: Rhasta'k']]]]
Date:	Thu, 7 Sep 2000 15:39:24 +0100

sophist n : someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious [syn:
{casuist}]
sophistry n : a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in
reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone [syn: {sophism}]

i.e. Saying "If anyone has a mental problem with that then I understand",
when there has been
no previous mention of mental problems in the context of the conversation,
then saying "I never said
anyone had a mental problem."

To argue formally:

My refutation uses the fact that aforementioned mental problem was
introduced to the line
of conversation by you, and therefore can possibly only imply that someone
indeed has
a mental problem. To claim otherwise is sophistry. :-)

>
>Sorry James... I'm a 15 year old Freshman and I have no idea
>what sophistory
>means. Could you dumb it down, for me?