. A movement of itinerant professional lecturers on many topics, including philosophical ones, who flourished in Greece, mainly in the last half of the fifth century BC. They differed widely in outlook, though many shared a tendency to scepticism. They...

A school of educational thought and practice that emerged around the middle of the fifth century BC in Greece; it emphasized human interest and concentrated on the skills of...

Sophists In English, the term sophist is most often used pejoratively, for one who argues with devious abuses of logic. The Greek Sophist In Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Waterfield, R....

Sophism can mean two very different things: In the modern definition, a sophism is a confusing or illogical argument used for deceiving someone. In Ancient Greece, the sophists were a group of teachers of philosophy and rhetoric. The term sophism...