sophist
/ˈsɒfɪst/noun
1- a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning（古希腊时代的）智者派, 诡辩派。
1.1
- a person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments诡辩者。
派生词
sophistic
/səˈfɪstɪk/ adjectivesophistical
/səˈfɪstɪkəl/ adjectivesophistically
adverb词源
mid 16th cent.: via Latin from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai 'devise, become wise', from sophos 'wise'.