Sophist

We are agreed, he says, about the name Sophist, but we may not be equally agreed about his nature.

The Sophist 2006

It was inevitable, therefore, that the name Sophist should lose its primitive meaning, and come to designate, not a man of wisdom, but a quibbler, and one who uses fallacious arguments.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

In the word Sophist there was indeed latent the idea which subsequently attached to it, but as first used it seems to have implied this only, that _skill_ was the object of the teaching rather than _truth_; the new teachers professed themselves 'practical men,' not mere theorists.

A Short History of Greek Philosophy John Marshall 1880

One more feature of the Eristic rather than of the Sophist is the tendency of the troublesome animal to run away into the darkness of Not-being.

The Sophist 2006

But the Sophist is the Proteus who takes the likeness of all of them; all other deceivers have a piece of him in them.

The Sophist 2006

They are both hunters after a living prey, nearly related to tyrants and thieves, and the Sophist is the cousin of the parasite and flatterer.

The Sophist 2006

STRANGER: Say no more of ourselves; but until we find some one or other who can speak of not-being without number, we must acknowledge that the Sophist is a clever rogue who will not be got out of his hole.

The Sophist 2006

The fixed characteristic of the Sophist is his seeming to know everything without doing so; this definition leads straight to the concept of false opinion, a thing whose object both is and is not.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

Dualism, Monism, Materialism and Idealism are all discussed, the conclusion being that the Sophist is a counterfeit of the Philosopher, a wilful impostor who makes people contradict themselves by quibbling.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

STRANGER: And there may be a third reappearance of him; — for he may have settled down in a city, and may fabricate as well as buy these same wares, intending to live by selling them, and he would still be called a Sophist?

The Sophist 2006