sophists

1. 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.

Notes

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

Example Sentences

The Sophists as a class had incurred the odium of being the first teachers who received pay for the instruction they imparted.

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Hence he was hated by the Sophists, who denied the certainty of arriving at any knowledge of God.

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His peculiar genius shines out in his "Clouds," the greatest of his pieces, in which he attacks the Sophists.

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The result was that with the poets style became as it had become with the sophists, an end in itself.

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Sokrates is a Sophist of the most genuine and noble stamp: others are Sophists, but of a more degenerate variety.

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