sophist

Significado (Inglés)

1. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
2. (figuratively) A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning.
3. (broadly, figuratively) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
4. (alt-of, alternative, dated) Alternative form of sophister (“university student who has completed at least one year”).

Conceptos

sofista

filosofía

Sinónimos

casuist

quibbler

debater

logician

philosophy

postmodernism

Sophist

controversialist

Traducciones

Sophist

σοφιστής

sofist

sofista

sophiste

sofista

casuista

φιλοσοφία

سوفسطائي

Sophistin

Winkeladvokat

filosofia

σκεπτικό

φιλοσοφία/σκεπτικό

Philosophie

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsɒfɪst/

Etimología (Inglés)

Learned borrowing from Latin sophista, also sophistes, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek σοφιστής (sophistḗs, “pursuer of wisdom”), from σοφίζομαι (sophízomai, “to become wise”).