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What is a sophist?

What is a sophist? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
  2. (loosely) A teacher who used plausible but fallacious reasoning.
  3. (loosely, by extension) One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.
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His speaking tours took him to Athens, Corinth, and Ionia, where he contracted a bitter feud with his fellow sophist Polemon.
And Plato does not on this ground reject the claim of the sophist to be the true philosopher.
To the Parmenides, the sophist stands in a less defined and more remote relation.
Thus, it may be inferred that Apollonius of Tyana was a sophist of sorts himself, whose life was treated separately from the lives of the other sophists.
Plato does not really mean to say that the sophist or the Statesman can be caught in this way.
Again, there is a third line, in which a sophist may be traced.

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