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Sophistic

adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to the ancient sophists.

    "[…] he is simply translating into Marxian terms the Sophistic view “that the more powerful will always take advantage of the weaker, and will give the name of law and justice to whatever they lay down in their own interests.”"

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of sophistic (“pertaining to the sophists”). alt-of
  3. 3
    Sophistical.
Adjective
  1. 1
    plausible but misleading wordnet
  2. 2
    of or pertaining to sophists wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method. historical

    "But when we consider his wish to reconcile Philosophy and Rhetoric, it must be remembered that, if the new Sophistic differed in most of its essential features from the Sophistic of Plato’s contemporaries, it was Philosophy as conceived by Isocrates rather than Plato that Themistius had in mind."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of sophistic. alt-of

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin sophisticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek σοφιστικός (sophistikós); morphologically, from sophist + -ic.

Etymology 2

Learned borrowing from Latin sophisticus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek σοφιστικός (sophistikós); morphologically, from sophist + -ic.

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