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He charged them with word-jugglery, with reasoning from words to theory instead of from facts to theory.
Chapter 36 2010
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He charged them with word-jugglery, with reasoning from words to theory instead of from facts to theory.
Chapter 36 1908
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If we are not to be misled by mere word-jugglery, we shall recognize the founder of the atomic theory of matter in Anaxagoras; its expositors along slightly different lines in Leucippus and Democritus; its re-discoverer of the nineteenth century in Dalton.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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Whatever the allurement of such reasoning, we must for the purpose of science let words have a specific meaning, nor must we let a mere word-jugglery blind us to the evidence of facts.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science 1904
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He had been the dupe of the old word-jugglery which was forever confounding fact and fancy in men's minds.
The Valley of Decision Edith Wharton 1899
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