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