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  • We are agreed, he says, about the name Sophist, but we may not be equally agreed about his nature.

    The Sophist 2006

  • It was inevitable, therefore, that the name Sophist should lose its primitive meaning, and come to designate, not a man of wisdom, but a quibbler, and one who uses fallacious arguments.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • In the word Sophist there was indeed latent the idea which subsequently attached to it, but as first used it seems to have implied this only, that _skill_ was the object of the teaching rather than _truth_; the new teachers professed themselves 'practical men,' not mere theorists.

    A Short History of Greek Philosophy John Marshall 1880

  • One more feature of the Eristic rather than of the Sophist is the tendency of the troublesome animal to run away into the darkness of Not-being.

    The Sophist 2006

  • But the Sophist is the Proteus who takes the likeness of all of them; all other deceivers have a piece of him in them.

    The Sophist 2006

  • They are both hunters after a living prey, nearly related to tyrants and thieves, and the Sophist is the cousin of the parasite and flatterer.

    The Sophist 2006

  • STRANGER: Say no more of ourselves; but until we find some one or other who can speak of not-being without number, we must acknowledge that the Sophist is a clever rogue who will not be got out of his hole.

    The Sophist 2006

  • The fixed characteristic of the Sophist is his seeming to know everything without doing so; this definition leads straight to the concept of false opinion, a thing whose object both is and is not.

    Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

  • Dualism, Monism, Materialism and Idealism are all discussed, the conclusion being that the Sophist is a counterfeit of the Philosopher, a wilful impostor who makes people contradict themselves by quibbling.

    Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

  • STRANGER: And there may be a third reappearance of him; — for he may have settled down in a city, and may fabricate as well as buy these same wares, intending to live by selling them, and he would still be called a Sophist?

    The Sophist 2006

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