Sophister
[sɔfistә]
Definition
(n.) A sophist. See Sophist.
(n.) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence.
(v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.
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Examples
- I, who stood by and heard all, saw immediately that one was a crafty old sophister, and the other a true novice. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He had some reason for loving to dispute, being eloquent, an acute sophister, and, therefore, generally successful in argumentative conversation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- No wonder that mankind have been in the habit of calling statesmen of this class pedants, sophisters, doctrinaires, visionaries. Plato. The Republic.
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