sophist

sophist
[ˈsɒfɪst]
noun
  1. a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning
    (古希腊时代的)智者派,诡辩派
    ■a person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments
    诡辩者
派生
sophistic
[-ˈfɪstɪk]
adjective
sophistical
[səˈfɪstɪk(ə)l]
adjective
sophistically
adverb
语源
  1. mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai 'devise, become wise', from sophos 'wise'
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