sophist
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1. someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious (noun.person)
2. any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects (noun.person)
| hypernym | : | philosopher, |
| definition | : | a specialist in philosophy (noun.person) |
3. someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious (noun.person)
| derivation | : | sophism, sophistication, sophistry, |
| definition | : | a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | casuistry, |
| definition | : | argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | casuistic, casuistical, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems (adj.pert) |
4. any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects (noun.person)
| derivation | : | sophistic, |
| definition | : | of or pertaining to sophists (adj.pert) |
5. someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious (noun.person)
| derivation | : | sophism, sophistication, sophistry, |
| definition | : | a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | casuistry, |
| definition | : | argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading (noun.cognition) |
| derivation | : | casuistic, casuistical, |
| definition | : | of or relating to the use of ethical principles to resolve moral problems (adj.pert) |
6. any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects (noun.person)
| derivation | : | sophistic, |
| definition | : | of or pertaining to sophists (adj.pert) |
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