Definition of sophist

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Sophist (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner..

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Cavillation :: Cavillation (n.) Frivolous or sophistical objection.
Philosophistic :: Philosophistic (a.) Alt. of Philosophistica.
Verdant :: Verdant (a.) Unripe in knowledge or judgment; unsophisticated; raw; green; as, a verdant youth..
Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding..
Sophister :: Sophister (n.) A sophist. See Sophist.
Sophistry :: Sophistry (n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.
Ceratine :: Ceratine (a.) Sophistical.
Sophisticating :: Sophisticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sophisticat.
Lamb :: Lamb (n.) A simple, unsophisticated person; in the cant of the Stock Exchange, one who ignorantly speculates and is victimized..
Innocent :: Innocent (n.) An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot..
Gymnosophist :: Gymnosophist (n.) One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature..
Sophister :: Sophister (v. t.) To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument..
Plain :: Plain (superl.) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.
Philosophistical :: Philosophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to the love or practice of sophistry.
Sophist :: Sophist (n.) Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner..
Theosophistical :: Theosophistical (a.) Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.
Philosophist :: Philosophist (n.) A pretender in philosophy.
Naive :: Naive (a.) Having native or unaffected simplicity; ingenuous; artless; frank; as, naive manners; a naive person; naive and unsophisticated remarks..
Chicanery :: Chicanery (n.) Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Sophistry :: Sophistry (n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
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