单词 | sophist |
释义 | soph·ist (sŏfĭst) n. 1. a. One skilled in elaborate and devious argumentation. b. A scholar or thinker. 2. Sophist Any of a group of professional fifth-century BC Greek philosophers and teachers who speculated on theology, metaphysics, and the sciences, and who were later characterized by Plato as superficial manipulators of rhetoric and dialectic. [Middle English sophiste, from Latin sophista, from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai, to become wise, from sophos, clever.] |
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