Sophist

Definitions

1. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
2. A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.
   figuratively
3. One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
   broadly, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]hey have⟳ acted in this Calumny both the injuſtice of the Tyrant, and the forgery of the Sophiſt.”

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