Definitionn. any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects
Last update: September 2, 2015
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Hence Plato in the Sophist describes the Megarians as "the friends of ideas." [Please select]
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SOPHIST WALLOPS HAUGHTY HELEN SQUARE ON PROBOSCIS. [Please select]
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"You see," triumphantly cried those whom he had always combated, "this man is only a sophist." [Please select]
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You remind me of Antisthenes, the professor said, a disciple of Gorgias, the sophist. [Please select]
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); and (4) the inquiry into not-being in the Sophist supplements the question of false opinion which is raised in the Theaetetus. [Please select]
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For the completion of the edifice, he makes preparation in the Theaetetus, and crowns the work in the Sophist. [Please select]
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He, it is said, was the first to teach for pay; he also was the first to adopt the name of Sophist. [Please select]
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This is what the physician tries to do by his drugs; this is what the Sophist tries to do by his words. [Please select]
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She may become a philosopher, a king, a trader, an athlete, a prophet, a poet, a husbandman, a sophist, a tyrant. [Please select]
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Upon this ground the great sophist Protagoras is said to have based his dictum: Πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον ἄνθρωπος,--"Man is the measure of all things." [Please select]
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The question at issue between Socrates and the master sophist Protagoras, is concerning the possibility of teaching virtue. [Please select]
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