sofisma
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Language
Portuguese
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sofisma is aPortuguesenoun. It means: designação do método de argumentação e ensino dos sofistas, adotado por filósofos contemporâneos a Sócrates, onde o cerne da sua retórica não se importava com a veracidade do enunciado mas o conven... Pronounced /soˈfiz.mɐ/.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sofisma |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /soˈfiz.mɐ/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Portuguese entry for sofisma is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /soˈfiz.mɐ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for sofisma in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable Portuguese patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Portuguese form is sofisma, spelled S-O-F-I-S-M-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1designação do método de argumentação e ensino dos sofistas, adotado por filósofos contemporâneos a Sócrates, onde o cerne da sua retórica não se importava com a veracidade do enunciado mas o convencimento do interlocutor, isto feito de modo a elaborar contradições logicamente elaboradas que levam a conclusões irrefutáveis que, mesmo falsas, cumpriam o papel de vencer um debate tanto no âmbito das assembleias quanto ante um júri ou tribunal
- 2todo raciocínio falso; construção lógica que, partindo de premissas verdadeiras, leva a uma conclusão falsa
- 3ato praticado com má fé, feito com o objetivo de enganar
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