1. Synonyms for Casuistries include speciousnesses, chicaneries, equivocations, sophisms, sophistries, casuistics, deceptions, deceptiveness, delusions and evasions

2. Non-classical literature is an unpleasant, disquieting literature which refuses to allow the sophisms of bourgeois complacency to go unchallenged.

3. 1713-1714, Alexander Pope, Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus we have sent you an answer to the ill-grounded Sophisms of those Crackbrained fellows, and likewise an …

4. Also, that he useth busily to propound, & urge to the utmost such sophisms, as may involve and encumber the Truth; and, as for Assoiling [solving] them, never to attempt it, but rather to leave them in their full strength, that they may stick in the minds of his readers.