Examples of 'sophist' in a sentence
Meaning of "sophist"
A 'sophist' in English is a noun referring to a person who reasons with clever but misleading arguments
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- One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
- A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.
- One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
- Alternative form of sophister (“university student who has completed at least one year”)
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His father was a minor sophist of the same name.
The sophist is a kind of merchant.
Caligula was a true sophist in his cruelty.
I think we have found the sophist.
You are the sophist among sophists.
It is now generally acknowledged to be a fabrication by a late sophist or rhetorician.
From our sophist blog.
The sophist ended up stammering and changing the subject.
You are a deceiver and a sophist.
You are a sophist and a liar.
If you are looking for a simple but at the same time sophist.
The eloquent sophist would soon have repented of his choice.
You are the sophist.
The sophist owns and justifies the expense of these military conversions.
Things which distinguish the sophist from the real philosopher.
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The sophist school explored later the relativism and skepticism of thinking and acting.
Rhetoric of the sophist.
The Sophist demands payment for his instructions.
He was a sophist.
In such an atmosphere came the traveling teacher the Sophist.
And the racist too can utilize the sophist theory to justify his racism.
The biographical details surrounding Antiphon the sophist c.
This was a reaction to the Sophist emphasis on rhetoric.
For all by denying the Greek gods and by worshipping that crucified sophist.
It was a reaction to the Sophist emphasis on rhetoric.
The sophists generally gave their discourses in Rome or one of three major sophist centers.
Or at least a sophist.
He was a sophist mentioned by Suidas.
Philosopher vs sophist.
Sophist and Statesman may appear exceptions.
Callicles is depicted as a young student of the sophist Gorgias.
In Rhodes he listened to the sophist philosophers and gave them money.
Some scholars suppose him to be the same person as the sophist Aelius Theon.
Greek Sophist were also sceptics.
The only pupil of Empedocles who is mentioned is the sophist and rhetorician Gorgias.
The Sophist school of philosophy.
A different dialogue called the Sophist.
Sophist is a dialogue by Plato.
Hippias was an ancient Greek sophist.
He was a sophist in Rome Second Sophistic era.
Socrates gets invited to meet the famous Sophist Protagoras.
The Sophist and in the Statesman.
An epithalamium for the occasion was composed by the sophist Julius Pollux.
The sophist and magnate Herodes Atticus was born in Marathon.
The book of the Song and the Sophist spiritual poetry.
The following passages may confirm the strongly libertarian commitments of Antiphon the Sophist.
AD was a Greek sophist and rhetorician.
Titian based the image on the writings of the Greek sophist Philostratus.
Sophist and Statesman.
This kind of relativistic position was first espoused by the ancient Sophist Protagoras.
