Associations to the word «Sophist»
Noun
- Socrates
- Plato
- Rhetoric
- Athenian
- Aristotle
- Orator
- Oratory
- Philosopher
- Athens
- Skepticism
- Dialogue
- Statesman
- Philo
- Older
- Plutarch
- Contemporary
- Thinker
- Cicero
- Sprague
- Allegory
- Eloquence
- Nestor
- Tiberius
- Oration
- Antioch
- Bce
- Ridicule
- Claudius
- Laws
- Greece
- Symposium
- Wisdom
- Persuasion
- Greek
- Discourse
- Argument
- Philosophy
- Gertrude
- Homer
- Odysseus
- Relativity
- Lexicon
- Sparta
- Virtue
- Disciple
- Intellectual
- Myth
- Bc
- Tyrant
- Lucius
- Pupil
- Sage
- Doctrine
- Logo
- Treatise
- Tuition
- Ce
- Fifth
- Teacher
- Mage
- Truth
- Logic
- Syracuse
- Teaching
- Speech
- Sicily
- Fee
- Ignorance
- Democracy
- Apology
- Handbook
- Sorcerer
- Paradox
- Fragment
- Gaza
Adjective
Wiktionary
SOPHIST, noun. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
SOPHIST, noun. (loosely) A teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning.
SOPHIST, noun. (loosely) (by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
Dictionary definition
SOPHIST, noun. Any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects.
SOPHIST, noun. Someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious.
Wise words
The most important things are the hardest things to say.
They are the things you get ashamed of because words
diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem
timeless when they are in your head to no more than living
size when they are brought out.