SOPHIST
Sophist
A Sophist was a specific kind of teacher in both Ancient Greece and in the Roman Empire. Many sophists specialized in using the tools of philosophy and rhetoric, though other sophists taught subjects such as music, athletics, and mathematics. In general, they claimed to teach arete, predominantly to young statesmen and nobility. There are not many writings from and about the first sophists. The early sophists' practice of charging money for education and providing wisdom only to those who could pay led to the condemnations made by Socrates, through Plato in his Dialogues, as well as by Xenophon in Memorabilia, and Aristotle. Author of The History and Theory of ...The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Sophist
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sophist
Noun
- One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
- A teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning.
- One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
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