Sophist is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SOPHIST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• 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.
• person who uses clever but invalid arguments
• 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.
• Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
• any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects
• someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• one that uses sophisms

Words related to SOPHIST

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Words that contain SOPHIST

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How to use SOPHIST in a sentence

• The sophist Libanius, who was an enemy of the Christians, confessed also that St.
• How right that Imperial sophist of the Decline to call it a convulsion! and the first Bonaparte, an affair of the sopha.
• Justin knew that the words of Jesus were short and concise, not like those of a Sophist.
• We have had the sophist who defends profligacy, and calls it the liberty of the emotions.
• We have had the sophist who defends idleness, and calls it art.
• A man of indecision is so called from the hypothetical ass of Buridan, the Greek sophist.
• He was a compound of the dandy, the sophist, and the agitator.
• Chief among them was Libanius, the sophist, his nearest neighbour, whose daughter Athenais had been the playmate of Hermas in the old days.
• Here, as in the Sophist and Politicus, Plato expressly draws attention to the want of agreement in words and things.
• On the other hand, the relation of thought to language is omitted here, but is treated of in the Sophist.
• Well-chosen nurse, his sophist lore, He bade thee many a year explore, He marked thy progress firm though slow, And statesmen, princes, leagued with their inveterate foe.
• It may be admitted that he has ascribed to an Eleatic stranger in the Sophist opinions which went beyond the doctrines of the Eleatics.
• To restore them to their natural connexion and to detect the negative element in them is the aim of Plato in the Sophist.
• But, being a subtle sophist, he sought to maintain a show of consistency by an ingenious evasion.
• Like a Sophist too, he is incapable either of framing a general definition or of following the course of an argument.
• He attached himself first to a brahmin sophist named Alara, and afterwards to another named Udraka, from whom he learnt all that Indian philosophy had then to teach.
• This eloquent sophist has an influence upon Shaw and his school which it would require a separate book adequately to study.
• Protagoras, the sophist, left it to his pupils to settle the amount of fee that he should receive.
• Vain Sophist! ask no reason why The love that cannot save, Will hover with despairing cry Around the dear ones grave.
• A clever sophist this you speak of, who is able to compel those who have no wisdom to be rightly wise.
• The pompous and empty Sophist is utterly helpless in the hands of the great master of dialectic, who knows how to touch all the springs of vanity and weakness in him.
• Now what opinion of any other Sophist, or of any private person, can be expected to overcome in such an unequal contest? None, he replied.
• Then we are going to pay our money to him in the character of a Sophist? Certainly.
• By the gods, I said, and are you not ashamed at having to appear before the Hellenes in the character of a Sophist? Indeed, Socrates, to confess the truth, I am.
• Then about what does the Sophist make him eloquent? Must not he make him eloquent in that which he understands? Yes, that may be assumed.
• And what is that which the Sophist knows and makes his disciple know? Indeed, he said, I cannot tell.
• Nor do I neglect other precautions, and therefore I hope, as I may say, by the favour of heaven that no harm will come of the acknowledgment that I am a Sophist.
• It may be remarked further that several of the dialogues, such as the Phaedrus, the Sophist, and the Parmenides, have more than one subject.

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