SOPHIST
\sˈɒfɪst], \sˈɒfɪst], \s_ˈɒ_f_ɪ_s_t]\
Definitions of SOPHIST
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A captions or fallacious reasoner; originally, a wise men; ultimately, a class of philosophers in ancient Greece, of the type of the so-called advanced thinkers of modern times, who assailed the conventional on merely subjective grounds.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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One of a body of men who arose in Greece in the fifth century B.C., and taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics, but who, by the use of vain subtleties and false axioms, incurred general hatred and contempt; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Greek] A philosopher; a teacher of logic, rhetoric, and philosophy ;-afterwards in ancient Greece one of an inferior class of men who taught for hire rhetoric and music; hence, as applied by Aristotle, a false teacher of philosophy ; a dealer in verbal niceties, quibbles, subtle enigmas, and fallacies; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
