sophist

(noun)

One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece, especially one who used fallacious but plausible reasoning.

Related Terms

Examples of sophist in the following topics:

  • Researching Using Digital Media

    • Digital media technologies are enabling researchers to use increasingly sophisticated tools to collect data via the Internet.
    • Online research methods enable researchers to use increasingly sophisticated digital tools to collect data via the Internet.

  • Advancements Under the Shang

    • During the Shang Dynasty, bronze casting became more sophisticated.

  • Chapter Questions

    • Why is liquidity important in defining the money supply for a country with sophisticated financial markets?

  • The role of marketing in the firm: a basis for classification

    • Despite the availability of high-powered computers and sophisticated software capable of analyzing massive amounts of data, marketing is still more of an art rather than a science.

  • Measuring Effectiveness of Public Relations Efforts

    • Sophisticated techniques, including computerized news clip analysis, survey sampling, quasi-experimental designs, and attempts to correlate efforts directly with sales, can be used for measurement.
    • The second level, which requires more sophisticated techniques, measures audience awareness, comprehension, and retention of the message.

  • Introduction to Small Business and the Corporation

    • In many industries, small enterprises had trouble raising sufficient funds and operating on a scale large enough to produce most efficiently all of the goods demanded by an increasingly sophisticated and affluent population.

  • Functions of the Nervous System

    • In humans, the sophistication of the nervous system makes it possible to have language, abstract representation of concepts, transmission of culture, and many other features of human society that would not exist without the human brain.

  • Blackbody Radiation

    • This may be done in a more sophisticated manner by fitting a blackbody spectrum or something like that.

  • History of Public Speaking

    • He criticized the Sophists for using rhetoric as a means of deceit instead of discovering truth.
    • Sophist (400s BCE): The Classical Period flourished for nearly a millennium in and around Greece as democracy gained prominence.
    • Citizens learned public speaking from early teachers known as Sophists.
    • Sophists were self-appointed professors of how to succeed in the civic life of the Greek states.

  • Painting under the Song Dynasty

    • Painting during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) reached a new level of sophistication with further development of landscape painting.
    • Painting during the Song Dynasty (960–1279) reached a new level of sophistication with further development of landscape painting.
    • Painting had become an art of high sophistication, associated with the gentry class as one of their main artistic pastimes (the others being calligraphy and poetry).