Sophist (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. (often initial capital letter)Greek History.
    • any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation.
    • a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
  2. a person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.
  3. a philosopher.
noun
  1. one of the pre-Socratic philosophers who were itinerant professional teachers of oratory and argument and who were prepared to enter into debate on any matter however specious
  2. a person who uses clever or quibbling arguments that are fundamentally unsound
Sophist (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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