| 单词 | sophist |
| 释义 | sophist /sof"ist/, n. 1. (often cap.) Gk. Hist. a. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. b. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument. 2. a person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly. 3. a philosopher. [1535-45; < L sophista < Gk sophistés sage, deriv. of sophízesthai] |
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