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sophists

noun

Meaning

  1. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
  2. A teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning.
  3. (by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
  4. A sophist.
  5. (universities) A student who is advanced beyond the first year of their residence.

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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