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What is a sophist?

What is a sophist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
  2. (loosely) A teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning.
  3. (loosely, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
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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.
Plato does not really mean to say that the sophist or the Statesman can be caught in this way.
You see, no doubt, that yet again, thanks to this intertwining, our many-headed sophist has forced us against our will to admit that what is not is in a way.
And Plato does not on this ground reject the claim of the sophist to be the true philosopher.
To the Parmenides, the sophist stands in a less defined and more remote relation.
Stephens examines the religious experience of second-century CE pagan sophist Aristides as expressed in his religious diary Sacred Tales.

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