(a.) Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "With the advent of sophisticated data-processing capabilities (including big data), the big number-crunchers can detect, model and counter all manner of online activities just by detecting the behavioural patterns they see in the data and adjusting their tactics accordingly.
(2) A developing sophistication on the part of both children and parents, coupled with a rapidly expanding recognition of the need to minimize the amount of physical and psychological trauma that a child has to experience, has led to a growing use of premedication agents for children.
(3) The initial defect can be directly measured by glucose clamp and other sophisticated techniques; the clinical syndrome may be derived from a network of related variables known to be associated with reduced insulin action.
(4) While simple assays of complex I activity are unlikely to be useful in the preclinical detection of Parkinson's disease, other more sophisticated physical-chemical approaches including detection of free radical damage may have utility.
(5) This is not some sophisticated, Westminstery battle, but a life-and-death, misery-or-decency choice about the very basics of life for hundreds of thousands of older British people.
(6) While the high sophistication subjects rated the interpretation as accurate across validity conditions, the low sophistication subjects rated the interpretation according to the validity instructions they received.
(7) Lateralization may be an expression of reflex constraints bound initially to the infant's tonic-neck posture, with later development less reflex-patterned during the acquisition of more sophisticated information-processing strategies.
(8) A simple multiband volume control is expected to provide much of the benefit of more sophisticated systems without the need for separate estimation of input speech and noise spectra.
(9) What’s imperative from an organizational standpoint, he added, is “understanding where voters are, what their concerns are, and building a sophisticated operation around that.
(10) The laws of functioning applicable to these approaches are those coming from liberal and planified economical theories while health planning has developed more and more sophisticated and convincing methodologies.
(11) Therefore, controlled hypotension, being a sophisticated technique, requires handling by an experienced anesthetist well aware of contraindications and the need for adequate monitoring for prevention of tissue ischemia.
(12) However, a homemade pipe bomb thrown at a police patrol in north Belfast earlier this year was described as of a new, sophisticated variety that the PSNI had not seen before.
(13) While numerous studies on infant perception have demonstrated the infant's ability to discriminate sounds having different frequencies, little research has evaluated more sophisticated pitch perception abilities such as perceptual constancy and perception of the missing fundamental.
(14) It is concluded that imaging of the urinary tract is not necessary for pure nightwetters, while ultrasonography or uroflowmetry and more sophisticated radiological or urological methods should be focused on those children with daytime wetting and clinical symptoms of voiding disturbances.
(15) When multiple database systems are present, a flexible front end can provide sophisticated querying capabilities that bridge the systems, while hiding the complexities of the multiple systems from the user.
(16) This validity coefficient turned out to be so high (r = 0.967) that it does not seem necessary to adopt a more sophisticated method, despite a few demonstrable shortcomings of the one in use.
(17) The comparison of drug responder and non-responder group has also been made more meaningful by the availability of more reliable methods of assessing clinical phenomena, more sophisticated diagnostic models and the introduction of other biological measures.
(18) The environment in the intensive therapy units (ITUs) has thus become increasingly sophisticated with the use of highly specialised equipment.
(19) Attempts to save parts of teeth go back 100 years or more, but it is the increased predictability of success of endodontic therapy and the increased sophistication of periodontal treatment that have given us the means to save molars with furcation problems that, otherwise, would be lost.
(20) The monitoring equipment gets more sophisticated and easier to use month by month.
Sophistry
Definition:
(n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.
(n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
Example Sentences:
(1) But too often, those who deploy the argument, are borrowing from the Bill Clinton school of sophistry: "I did not have racist relations with that religion".
(2) Whatever the mechanisms of the drug-induced carcinogenesis, it is clear that there is a toxicologic hazard, which must be assessed rationally and not by means of sophistry.
(3) It has been their policy for the last 10 years and the commitment could not have been clearer in the Queen's speech that followed the general election (even if the wording of the coalition agreement allowed for some sophistry by opponents of reform).
(4) This sort of sophistry neatly inverts the actual benefactor-beneficiary relationship: for-profit companies are attempting to save money on entry level positions by extracting unpaid labour from a population of vulnerable young people, many of whom are unaware that these arrangements are often illegal.
(5) The Union now host their affiliate team Harrisburg in the quarter finals - prompting a little bit of sophistry from US Soccer as to why the two teams aren't technically affiliated .
(6) Though this is not explicit, it will help slice through the banalities and sophistry that party and campaign spin doctors on both sides seem unable to shake off with the referendum campaign.
(7) What Wisconsin does offer is a transparent illustration of the ideological sophistry and political mendacity driving these attacks.
(8) At best, these arrangements are advantageous legal sophistry.
(9) How can they approve this through the normal processes?” The chair of the London assembly’s budget and performance committee accused Johnson of “sophistry”.
(10) The possibility of exposing the mendacious speeches, populism and sophistry of politics, economics and culture is thrilling.
(11) "For all the sophistry and rhetoric about avoiding violence, how can they reconcile that with being ok with evictions?
(12) People think we just chuck it out there, but there's a huge amount of data sophistry into how we design the campaigns."
(13) This fiasco over PIP eligibility ultimately reveals the sophistry behind the government's disability agenda.
(14) The remainers in the audience saw the sophistry, but no matter.
(15) But it’s precisely this veil of classiness, this veneer of BBC2 sophistication, that brings on the sophistry.
(16) At best this is sophistry and at worst this is misleading, because the NAO report says the Department for Work and Pensions is actively considering a delay to this too.
(17) But he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them … Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.” When these contradictions are rooted in history this sophistry can be neatly buried under time.