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Example of Plato's dialogue "Gorgias" exposes the dangers of amoral sophistical argument, in a demonstration of allowing the sophist, on the basis of a fallacy of clever sophistical logic, to lead him to "admit" that his father was a mongrel dog.
==Examples of Sophistry==
==Examples of Sophistry==
Below are some examples of sophistry:
[[Plato]] in his dialogue ''Gorgias'' exposes the dangers of amoral sophistical argument, in a demonstration of allowing the sophist, on the basis of a [[fallacy]] of clever sophistical [[logic]], to lead him to "admit" that his father was a mongrel dog.
Below are some modern examples of sophistry:
* "impose [[gun control]] to reduce crime"; in fact, guns prevent more crimes than they cause
* "impose [[gun control]] to reduce crime"; in fact, guns prevent more crimes than they cause