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sophist
noun
(soph-ist)
someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious
Synonyms:
casuist
,
sophist
noun
(soph-ist)
any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects
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casuist
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torturing
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protagoras
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parmenides
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sophistical
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logical fallacy
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empiricist
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casuistry
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arguer
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buncombe
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rhetoricians
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logicians
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luciferian
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philosophe
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imposture
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wishfulness
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prolixity
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solipsist
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existentialist philosophy
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ipse dixit
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dissembler
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disingenuity
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circumlocution
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tu quoque
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punctiliousness
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determinist
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flatterer
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dilettantism
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reductio ad absurdum
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incommensurability
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philo
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non compos mentis
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prevaricator
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maritain
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charlatanry
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dandyism
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tautologies
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dogmatist
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cui bono
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hifalutin
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religionist
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metaphysic
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supernaturalism
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positivist
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syllogisms
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pedantry
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exculpation
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sophistries
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essentialism
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speciousness
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antisemite
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journalese
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lexis
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metaphysician
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historicism
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punster
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juris
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elide
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mountebank
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intertextuality
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nominalism
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monism
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incuriosity
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sluggard
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sloganeer
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metonymy
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scientism
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karl von clausewitz
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hegelian dialectic
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aristotelian logic
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ferdinand de saussure
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platonism
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begetter
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lawgiver
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la rochefoucauld
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logical positivism
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lecher
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plotinus
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hemingwayesque
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harlotry
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homiletic
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sybarite
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ironist
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ingratiation
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textualist
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loquacity
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schopenhauer
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ungrammatically
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pentameter
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metaphysicians
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attitudinizing
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frivolousness
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presentism
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abstract noun
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archaisms
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teleology
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dialectical materialism
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diphthong
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knavery
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