subtilties

But what he shall doe, if he be urged with sophisticall subtilties about a Sillogisme?

Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

It is neither grammaticall subtilties nor logicall quiddities, nor the wittie contexture of choice words or arguments and syllogismes, that will serve my turne.

Of Bookes. 1909

But what shall he doe, if he be urged with sophisticall subtilties about a

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

It is neither grammaticall subtilties nor logicall quiddities, nor the wittie contexture of choice words or arguments and syllogismes, that will serve my turne.

Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian Various 1562

She was the widow of a pastor who had suffered for his faith in the last open persecution, and being the daughter of a baker, the authorities of the town had permitted her to support herself and her son by carrying on a trade in the more delicate 'subtilties' of the art, which were greatly relished at the civic feasts.

The Chaplet of Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

I consider myself more savvy than most on economic matters, but still the subtilties escape me 4 times out of 5.

The Productivity Story, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

To conceive a just contempt for all these foolish subtilties, read Demosthenes, and see if in any one of his harangues he employs one of these ridiculous sophisms.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Jesuits and other relaxed casuists, were commonly formed in prosecution of some such subtilties of reasoning as are here pointed out, and proceed as much from the habit of scholastic refinement as from any corruption of the heart, if we may follow the authority of Mons.

An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006

The casuistical subtilties may not be greater than the snbtilties of lawyers, hinted at above; but as the former are pernicious, and the latter innocent and even necessary, this is the reason of the very different reception they meet with from the world.

An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006

But though the solid practical sense of that author, and his aversion to all vain subtilties, render his authority on the present subject very considerable; yet is not this an affair to be decided by authority, and the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals 2006