• noun:   falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

  Example: "He practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"

• noun:   the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
• noun:   being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

  Example: "Understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

• noun:   uplifting enlightenment
• noun:   a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

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