sophistic
IPA: sʌfˈɪstɪk
noun
- (historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.
- Alternative letter-case form of sophistic [(historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.]
adjective
- Pertaining to the ancient sophists.
- Sophistical.
- Alternative letter-case form of sophistic (“pertaining to the sophists”) [Pertaining to the ancient sophists.]
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Examples of "sophistic" in Sentences
- I tried to be a sophisticate.
- He fancies himself a sophisticate.
- Betsy can be described as sophistication.
- His rhythmic sophistication was unequaled.
- The difference is in sophistication and accuracy.
- The issue is one of semantics and sophistication.
- A comment was banned for the use of the word sophistic?
- But it does so with such subtlety, panache and sophistication.
- Eventually their sophistication will rule the develpoment of the world.
- With the movement in Greek thought which is generally known as sophistic,
- You and I both know, I reached into that sophistic bag that could go on forever.
- Claudius follows this with a sophistic argument -- "But you must know your father lost a father" -- which functions as a licentia.
- This seems to me to have been unnecessary and rather sophistic (except to achieve the results desired in locking up this defendant).
- Unfortunately, the ambiguities inherent in such inconsistent characterizations of genocide have allowed for a sophistic intellectualization of the term.
- Sullen countermodernity images the academic as the snide sophistic Last Man, pathetically, defensively retreated into what – all good sense knows – is pseudo-intellectual flummery.
- Where these features are self-evident, the sophistic monosensicalist will not challenge the accuracy of the observation but will instead insist that “marriage” refers only to the instituionalised union of husband and wife, in order to redraw the goalposts and exclude the weight of evidence; there is only one example of “marriage” in the work, they will insist, so this canot be a key theme.
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