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Definition of Sophists
1. sophist [n] - See also: sophist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sophists
Literary usage of Sophists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"Profession of the sophists : essential elements of their doctrines. ...
Important services of the sophists in forming a prose style: different tendencies of ..."
2. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"The Instruction of the sophists (Isocrates, Against the sophists; selected)
Isocrates (436-338 BC), was an Athenian orator and rhetorician, who was educated ..."
3. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"The Instruction of the sophists (Isocrates, Against the sophists; selected)
Isocrates (436-338 BC), was an Athenian orator and rhetorician, who was educated ..."
4. Readings in the History of Education: A Collection of Sources and Readings by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley (1920)
"The Instruction of the sophists (Isocrates ... In his speech, Against the sophists,
written in this same year, he attacks those who attract pupils by low ..."
5. A history of philosophy by Johann Eduard Erdmann, Williston Samuel Hough (1892)
"THE sophists. aside all questions as to the wherefore of things and renounce ...
And that the definition thus given by the sophists was the one required by ..."
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