Stratagem vs Sophistry - What's the difference?
stratagem | sophistry |
A tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception.
* 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]:
(uncountable) Cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.
*"Such conduct is at any rate not sophistical, if Aristotle be right in describing sophistry as the art of making money." 1844 - Søren Kierkegaard in Philosophical Fragments (Philosophiske Smuler eller En Smule Philosophi)
(uncountable) The art of using deceptive speech or writing.
(countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
As nouns the difference between stratagem and sophistry
is that stratagem is a tactic or artifice designed to gain the upper hand, especially one involving underhanded dealings or deception while sophistry is (uncountable) cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.stratagem
English
Noun
(en noun)- While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.