詭弁

• 読み: きべん
• ローマ字: kiben
• 漢字の分解: 詭 (ki) — deceptive, crafty, crooked; 弁 (ben) — speech, argument, rhetoric
• 発音: /ki.beɴ/

意味

Sophistry; specious argument; reasoning that appears valid on the surface but is logically flawed or deliberately misleading.

A noun used to criticise arguments that are superficially plausible but actually manipulative or logically unsound. It corresponds to the concept of sophistry in Western rhetoric. 詭弁 often involves exploiting ambiguity, false analogy, or emotional manipulation. The term appears in academic debate, political commentary, and everyday disputes where one party exposes the other's dishonest reasoning.

例文

1. 彼の論理は一見筋が通っているように見えるが、実は詭弁に過ぎない。
2. 詭弁を見抜く力は、論理的思考の基本であると言われる。
3. 議論の場で詭弁を使う相手には、前提をひとつひとつ確認することが大切だ。

使い方ガイド

場面: philosophy, debate, political commentary, rhetoric

トーン: critical

起源と歴史

Sino-Japanese compound. 詭 means 'deceptive, cunning, crooked' and 弁 means 'speech, argument, eloquence'. Together they describe eloquence that is deceptive rather than truthful.

文化的背景

時代: Classical–Modern

世代: Adults

社会的背景: Academic/Professional