Sophists is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOPHISTS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• SOPHIST, a person who uses deceptive reasoning to win debates, also SOPHISTER
• a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.
• a person who reasons with clever but false arguments.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that uses sophisms

Words related to SOPHISTS

sophist12

Words that contain SOPHISTS

pansophists18 theosophists20 gymnosophists24 philosophists23 deipnosophists22

How to use SOPHISTS in a sentence

• Protagoras, one of the greatest of the Sophists, published a book On the Gods, the object of which seems to have been to prove that one cannot know the gods by reason.
• They had a comic drama, which constantly held up to ridicule philosophers and sophists and their vain doctrines.
• Moreover, like the Sophists in the time of Socrates, they were assuming, specious, and rhetorical.
• In short, the writings of these critics, compared with those of the ancients, are like the works of the sophists compared with those of the old philosophers.
• Beside the public teachings of philosophers and sophists, common schools were established at Athens by Solon.
• Like the sophists and like Plato himself, though in a different sense, he begins his discussion by an appeal to mythology, and distinguishes between the elder and younger love.
• Faith in human goodness, irrespective of reward and punishment, either here or hereafter, sophists of this bigotted class have literally none.
• In the representations of the Comic poets, and in the opinion of the multitude, he had been identified with the teachers of physical science and with the Sophists.
• Yet incidentally the antagonism between Socrates and the Sophists is allowed to appear.
• The Lesser Hippias may be compared with the earlier dialogues of Plato, in which the contrast of Socrates and the Sophists is most strongly exhibited.
• Like all the Sophists in the dialogues of Plato, he is vain and boastful, yet he has also a certain dignity, and is treated by Socrates with considerable respect.
• That poetry is akin to rhetoric may be compared with the analogous notion, which occurs in the Protagoras, that the ancient poets were the Sophists of their day.
• Then there are the Sophists and their young disciples, and the vast crowd of the Athenian people.
• Like Alcibiades he is inspired with an ardent desire of knowledge, and is equally willing to learn of Socrates and of the Sophists.
• He seems, like Aristophanes, to regard the new opinions, whether of Socrates or the Sophists, as fatal to Athenian greatness.
• It might seem as though the Virgin Mary had chilled the hearts of those sophists who have banished her from heaven with her treasures of loving kindness.
• In short, the Writings of these Criticks compared with those of the Ancients, are like the Works of the Sophists compared with those of the old Philosophers.
• And this, I think, was the error into which the Sophists were betrayed.
• Philosophers, as they produce sophists, produce their own scourge.
• Thus the individualism of the Sophists and the despotism of Plato are overcome, while an important place is made for experience, or science.
• They believe in Christianity as the Sophists of the decadence believed in paganism.
• With his friends the Sophists, he made man the measure of all things, after bidding him measure himself, as they neglected to do, by his own ideal.
• The mirth is broader, the irony more sustained, the contrast between Socrates and the two Sophists, although veiled, penetrates deeper than in any other of his writings.
• Here as elsewhere is the usual contrast between the Sophists representing average public opinion and Socrates seeking for increased clearness and unity of ideas.
• But as I read this it came over me that both Jesus and Lincoln were sophists.

Similar words containing SOPHIST without suffix s

sophist12 sophister14 sophistic16 sophistry17 pansophist17 sophisters15 pansophists18 sophistical18 sophistries16 theosophist19 gymnosophist23 philosophist22 sophisticate19 theosophists20 deipnosophist21 gymnosophists24 philosophists23 sophistically23 sophisticated21 sophisticates20 sophisticator20 deipnosophists22 philosophistic26 sophisticating22 sophistication21 sophisticators21 unsophisticate21 anthroposophist25 sophisticatedly26 sophistications22 theosophistical25 unsophisticated23 pseudosophistic25 supersophistica24 unsophisticatio22 ultrasophistica22 oversophisticat25 unsophistication23 oversophisticated28 unsophistications24 ultrasophisticated26 supersophisticated28 pseudosophisticated30 pseudosophistication30 pseudosophistications31

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