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"Sophist" Definition

noun

A scholar or thinker.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

Any of a group of professional fifth-century B.C. Greek philosophers and teachers who speculated on theology, metaphysics, and the sciences, and who were later characterized by Plato as superficial manipulators of rhetoric and dialectic.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

One skilled in elaborate and devious argumentation.

Source: American Heritage Dictionary

A captious or fallacious reasoner.

Source: Merriam-Webster

Any of a class of ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of successful living prominent about the middle of the fifth century for their adroit subtle and allegedly often specious reasoning.

Source: Merriam-Webster

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