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sophist n. 诡辩学者,诡辨家,学者 诡辩学者,诡辨家,学者 Sophist n 1: any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects 2: someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious [ synonym: { casuist}, { sophist}] Sophist \ Soph" ist\, n. [ F. sophiste, L. sophistes, fr. Gr. ?. See { Sophism}.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Many of the Sophists doubdtless card not for truth or morality, and merely professed to teach how to make the worse appear the better reason; but there scems no reason to hold that they were a special class, teaching special opinions; even Socrates and Plato were sometimes styled Sophists. -- Liddell & Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner. [ 1913 Webster] 23 Moby Thesaurus words for " sophist": Jesuit, casuist, choplogic, cosmologist, dialectician, logicaster, logician, logistician, metaphysician, paralogist, philosophaster, philosophe, philosopher, philosophizer, ratiocinator, rationalist, rationalizer, reasoner, sophister, speculator, syllogist, syllogizer, thinker
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