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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...
- generalship, and oration. Closely ****ociated with his brother and fellow sophist Euthydemus, he is depicted in the writing of Plato and Xenophon. Plato's...
- 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...
- Troilus of Constantinople (Ancient Gr****: Τρώϊλος) was a sophist from Side in Pamphylia of the late 4th and early 5th century. He taught in Constantinople...
- 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...
- The name Antiphon the Sophist (/ˈæntəˌfɒn, -ən/; Ancient Gr****: Ἀντιφῶν) is used to refer to the writer of several Sophistic treatises. He probably lived...
- "Against the Sophists" is among the few Isocratic speeches that have survived from Ancient Greece. This polemical text was Isocrates' attempt to define...
- Abas (Gr****: Ἄβας) was an ancient Gr**** sophist and a rhetorician about whose life nothing is known. The Suda ascribes to him historical commentaries...
- Ἀψίνης) was a sophist from Athens. He was a son of Onasimus (Ancient Gr****: Ὀνάσιμος), and grandson of another Apsines who was an Athenian sophist. It is not...