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Definition of Sophist

Sophist
Sophist Soph"ist, n. [F. sophiste, L. sophistes, fr. Gr. ?. See Sophism.] 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 truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt. Many of the Sophists doubdtless card not for truth or morality, and merely professed to teach how to make the worse appear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching special opinions; even Socrates and Plato were sometimes styled Sophists. --Liddell & Scott. 2. Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.

Meaning of Sophist from wikipedia

- A sophist (Gr****: σοφιστής, romanized: sophistēs) was a teacher in ancient Greece in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Sophists specialized in one or...
- The Sophist (Gr****: Σοφιστής; Latin: Sophista) is a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BC. In it the interlocutors...
- not be Plato's) is "or the Sophists". The main argument is between Socrates and the elderly Protagoras, a celebrated sophist and philosopher. The discussion...
- Sophist Mountain is a 3,001-metre (9,846-foot) mountain in British Columbia, Canada. Sophist Mountain is the highest point of the Kitchen Range which is...
- Abas (Gr****: Ἄβας) was an ancient Gr**** sophist and a rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. The Suda ascribes to him historical commentaries...
- was an ancient Gr**** historian of Arab descent, orator, rhetorician and sophist who flourished in the 3rd century. He came from a local eminent family...
- who were catalogued and celebrated by Philostratus in his Lives of the Sophists. However, some recent research has indicated that this Second Sophistic...
- "Against the Sophists" is among the few Isocratic speeches that have survived from Ancient Greece. This polemical text was Isocrates' attempt to define...
- little is known about him, Gr**** sophist Philostratus in his work Lives of the Sophists (Βίοι Σοφιστῶν) mentioned that sophist Heliodorus made a strong impression...
- (appears in Shabbat 145b and Yevamot 45b) Choricius of Gaza (c. 500), Gr**** sophist and rhetorician Gaza Triad, three 6th Century Christian theologians from...