1) Ancient Greek educator 2) Ancient Greek instructor 3) Ancient Greek teacher 4) Devious arguer 5) Devious reasoner 6) Dialogue of Plato 7) Fallacious reasoner 8) Philosopher 9) Protagoras, notably 10) Skillful reasoner 11) Specious arguer 12) Superficial thinker
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1) Casuist 2) Deceiver 3) Doctrinaire 4) Scholar
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One who engages logic — specifically the syllogistic form of argument — for the purpose of self-promotion. A sophist is someone who, basically, manipulates words in order to present as true what is false. He attempts this by giving the appearance of logically ordered argument, but in reality transgresses one or more rules of correct syllogistic...
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[dialogue] The Sophist (Σοφιστής; Sophista) is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher`s late period, most likely written in 360 BC. Its main theme is to identify what a sophist is and how a sophist differs from a philosopher and statesman. Because each seems distinguished by a particular form of knowledge, the dialogue continues s...
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• (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner. • (n.) One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves genera...
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(from the article `Plato`) ...were written takes on importance. Only through it can the development of Plato`s thought be adequately charted. Unfortunately, Plato himself has ... The Sophist purports to investigate what a Sophist really is. The definitions all lead to such notions as falsity, illusion, nonbeing. But these ... ...ever...
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any of certain Greek lecturers, writers, and teachers in the 5th and 4th centuries , most of whom travelled about the Greek-speaking world giving ... [18 related articles]
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In ancient Greece, one of a group of 5th-century BC itinerant lecturers on culture, rhetoric, and politics. Sceptical about the possibility of achieving genuine knowledge, they applied bogus...
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Soph'ist noun [ French
sophiste , Latin
sophistes , from Greek .... See
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1. One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after tr...
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A Sophist was a class of teacher of rhetoric and the art of conduct, in ancient Greece.
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In ancient Greece, one of a group of 5th-century BC itinerant lecturers on culture, rhetoric, and politics. Sceptical about the possibility of achieving genuine knowledge, they applied bogus reasoning and were concerned with winning arguments rather than establishing the truth. Plato regarded them as dishonest and sophistry came to mean fallaci...
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[SAT terms] someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
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