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Sophist

noun

Any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects.

Someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious. Synonym: casuist.

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... found a city, truly deserving that name, and not nominally so, must be to have his citizens virtuous; for otherwise it is merely an alliance for self-defence; differing from those of the same cast which are made between different people only in place: for law is an agreement and a pledge, as the sophist Lycophron says, between the citizens of their intending to do justice to each other, though not sufficient to make all the citizens just and good: and that this is fiact is evident, for could any one bring different places together, as, for instance, ...

— Politics - A Treatise on Government • Aristotle

Words linked to "Sophist" : philosopher, sophistic, ratiocinator, reasoner, sophism