sophists

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Ancient Greek teachers who were accused by some of their contemporaries (including Plato) of being more interested in winning arguments through crafty rhetoric than in pursuing truth.

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notes for sophists

By extension, a “sophist” is someone who engages in persuasive but false arguments.

Words nearby sophists

sophistic, sophisticate, sophisticated, sophistication, sophistry, sophists, Sophocles, sophomore, sophomoric, Sophonias, sophrosyne

How to use sophists in a sentence

The Sophists as a class had incurred the odium of being the first teachers who received pay for the instruction they imparted.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
Hence he was hated by the Sophists, who denied the certainty of arriving at any knowledge of God.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
His peculiar genius shines out in his "Clouds," the greatest of his pieces, in which he attacks the Sophists.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I|John Lord
The result was that with the poets style became as it had become with the sophists, an end in itself.
Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance|Donald Lemen Clark

Sokrates is a Sophist of the most genuine and noble stamp: others are Sophists, but of a more degenerate variety.
Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume III (of 4)|George Grote

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