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sophists
noun
(soph-ist)
philosopher
sophists
noun
(soph-ist)
any of a class of ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of successful living prominent about the middle of the fifth century b.c. for their adroit subtle and allegedly often specious reasoning
sophists
noun
(soph-ist)
a captious or fallacious reasoner
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