sophist
名词 n.
英 /ˈsɒfɪst/
美 /ˈsoʊfɪst/
英文释义
名词 n.
- Alternative letter-case form of Sophist, certain teachers in Ancient Greece, particularly skilled orators.
- A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.
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One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
— [T]hey have acted in this Calumny both the injuſtice of the Tyrant, and the forgery of the Sophiſt.
- Synonym of sophister (“university student who has completed at least one year”).
词形变化
词汇关系
词源
Learned borrowing from Latin sophista and sophistes, borrowed from Ancient Greek σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “wise one”), from σοφίζομαι (sophízomai, “to become wise”).
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