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sophist
  1. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
  2. (loosely) A teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning.
  3. (loosely, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “And Plato does not on this ground reject the claim of the sophist to be the true philosopher.”
      “His speaking tours took him to Athens, Corinth, and Ionia, where he contracted a bitter feud with his fellow sophist Polemon.”
      “To the Parmenides, the sophist stands in a less defined and more remote relation.”
sophistry
  1. (uncountable) Cunning, sometimes manifested as trickery.
  2. (uncountable) The art of using deceptive speech or writing.
  3. (countable) An argument that seems plausible, but is fallacious or misleading, especially one devised deliberately to be so.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “What will not work is to try to resolve the matter by using weasel words and sophistry to escape from a moral obligation.”
      “This is nothing but a sophistry to beautify and embellish what is, essentially, a vile ideology.”
      “Understanding this merely requires a grand exercise in Orwellian doublethink, Greek sophistry and a uniquely Lawloresque take on the world.”
sophism
  1. A method of teaching using the techniques of philosophy and rhetoric.
  2. (informal) A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
  3. (informal) An intentional fallacy.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Thus, even since brute force has been held in check, the sophism has been not merely a species of evil, but the very essence of evil.”
      “They regarded this view of science as unsatisfactory, incomplete, or just another form of sophism.”
      “And style, said Flaubert, is a very manner of seeing things, adding that distinctions between thought and style are a sophism.”
sophister
  1. A sophist.
  2. (dated, Britain, US, universities) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Do not let any sophister teach thee that thy God is far aloft from thee as the stars are.”
      “Burke said the age of the economist was also the age of the sophister.”
      “But wil you giue me leaue now eftsones a while to play the Sophister his part with you?”
sophisticalness
soph
  1. (dated) Clipping of sophister. (in academic sense)
  2. Examples:
    1. “Our best stab at it is soph Jason Terry, who'll be handling it anyway and likes to get his share of shots in.”
      “She certainly will not win the 28 soph presidency, no matter how much you may root for her.”
      “Dude was all-state as a soph and an All-American as a senior.”
soph
  1. Clipping of sophomore.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Our best stab at it is soph Jason Terry, who'll be handling it anyway and likes to get his share of shots in.”
      “She certainly will not win the 28 soph presidency, no matter how much you may root for her.”
      “Dude was all-state as a soph and an All-American as a senior.”
sophism
  1. Archaic spelling of Sufism.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Thus, even since brute force has been held in check, the sophism has been not merely a species of evil, but the very essence of evil.”
      “They regarded this view of science as unsatisfactory, incomplete, or just another form of sophism.”
      “And style, said Flaubert, is a very manner of seeing things, adding that distinctions between thought and style are a sophism.”
sophistress
  1. A female sophist.
  2. Examples:
    1. “What will you say to Aspatia Milesia, who is celebrated as a Sophistress, a Teacher of Rhetoric, and a Poetess?”
sophistresses
  1. plural of sophistress
sophisters
  1. plural of sophister
sophistries
  1. plural of sophistry
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A few of the usual postmodern sophists offered up a few of the usual postmodern sophistries about perfect freedom and individual will.”
      “There are then, several sophistries involved in abdicating our positions to cultural corruption.”
      “When you bombard them with sophistries, wrong messages and show them only dead-ends, that is where you finally reach.”
sophisms
  1. plural of sophism
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The poison, rankling in her veins, she knew could not be expelled by idle sophisms.”
      “Such sophisms, while efficient in the media or in the public, are in reality hardly convincing.”
      “There never was a collection of more glaring contradictions, more gaudy sophisms, than the youthful orator's declamatory harangue.”
sophists
  1. plural of sophist
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A few of the usual postmodern sophists offered up a few of the usual postmodern sophistries about perfect freedom and individual will.”
      “Sure enough, bylined sophists hit the Internet for descriptions of the machine.”
      “We raised our children, in the postwar period, to be sophists, and the children became the Baby-Boomer generation.”
sophs
  1. plural of soph
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