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How to use sophists in a sentence

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We raised our children, in the postwar period, to be sophists, and the children became the Baby-Boomer generation.
A few of the usual postmodern sophists offered up a few of the usual postmodern sophistries about perfect freedom and individual will.
Sure enough, bylined sophists hit the Internet for descriptions of the machine.
In the following centuries the sophists became masters of rhetoric, and taught this sometimes black art to the politicians and lawmen of their day.
Socrates and Plato were deeply interested in the ideas of sophists such as Protagoras and Gorgias because their ideas were profound.
Such, in essence, is the reasoning of these sophists, who can always find extenuating circumstances for the assassins and reasons to find fault with their victims.
He is assigned to the sophists whose interest, among other things, are in common with rhetoric: the art of free, independent speech and the transfer of knowledge.
How do such sophists deny that a well-known entity exists?
As he said, they belonged, along with sophists, in the category of those who used their power of speech to win a particular cause, whether just or unjust, in exchange for gifts.
Besides, he dedicates them to a consul named Antonius Gordianus, a descendant of Herodes Atticus, with whom he had conversed at Antioch concerning the sophists.
Bad philosophers are also known as sophists.
A trip to Rome with an old friend, a specialist on suicide in ancient Rome, leads him to wonder whether he is being manipulated by an heir to the sophists.
Thus, it may be inferred that Apollonius of Tyana was a sophist of sorts himself, whose life was treated separately from the lives of the other sophists.
He studied rhetoric under Proclus, whose school was at Athens, and had opportunities of hearing, if he was not actually the pupil of some of the foremost rhetoricians and sophists of his time.
There are sophists who retort that Mr. Duranty was recognized for what he wrote before he bore false witness about the Holodomor, as Ukrainians refer to this genocide.
Examples from Classical Literature
Never have we set eyes on the man anywhere who owed his goodness to the sophists of to-day.
The sophists are still floundering about the distinction of the real and seeming.
What principle of rival sophists or anybody else can overcome in such an unequal contest?
He listened to the peripatetic philosophers, and was unpuzzled by the sophists.
With the sophists of Louvain, as Luther terms them, he could have had no sympathy.
The public themselves, he says, are the real sophists and the most complete and thorough educators.
Are not the public who say these things the greatest of all sophists?
They have received entire, and without losing an obole of it, the heritage of the Greek Sophists.
The Athenian youth were not corrupted in this sense, and therefore the Sophists could not have corrupted them.
Like the ancient Sophists, he relegates the more important principles of ethics to custom and probability.
For he is exhibited as ignorant of the very elements of dialectics, in which the Sophists have failed to instruct their disciple.
The teaching of the Sophists is confessedly inadequate, and Meno, who is their pupil, is ignorant of the very nature of general terms.
He seems, like Aristophanes, to regard the new opinions, whether of Socrates or the Sophists, as fatal to Athenian greatness.
Yet incidentally the antagonism between Socrates and the Sophists is allowed to appear.
The gentle force of attainder or confiscation or death which, as you are aware, these new Sophists and educators who are the public, apply when their words are powerless.
In the representations of the Comic poets, and in the opinion of the multitude, he had been identified with the teachers of physical science and with the Sophists.
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