sophist

English - Turkish

Definition of sophist in English Turkish dictionary

{i} sofist

Bu sofistike bir enstrümandır. - This is a sophisticated instrument.

Sen çok sofistikesin. - You're very sophisticated.

{i} bilgici

safsatacı kimse

yalan sözlerle başkalarını ikna etmeye çalışan kimse

{i} safsatacı

sophists

sofistlerin

sophistically

yanıltıcı bir şekilde

sophistically

temelsiz bir biçimde

English - English

Definition of sophist in English English dictionary: One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument; One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece, especially one who used fallacious but plausible reasoning; A person who uses deceptive reasoning to win debates; {n} a professor of philosophy, caviller, soph; Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner; someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious; One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt; any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects; {i} ancient Greek teacher of philosophy; one who is skilled in devious argumentation
sophistically: {a} with keen or fallacious subtilty
A sophist: sophister
sophistically: in a sophistic manner, fallaciously, in a deceptive and misleading manner
sophists: plural of sophist
sophists: Group of itinerant professional teachers, lecturers, and writers prominent in Greece in the later 5th century BC. The sophistic movement arose at a time when there was much questioning of the absolute nature of familiar values and ways of life. An antithesis arose between nature and custom, tradition, or law, in which custom could be regarded either as artificial trammels on the freedom of the natural state or as beneficial and civilizing restraints on natural anarchy. Both views were represented among the sophists, though the former was the more common. Their first and most eminent representative was Protagoras; other notable sophists include Gorgias of Leontini, Prodicus, Hippias, Antiphon, Thrasymachus, and Critias. A later "second sophistic school" existed in the 2nd century AD