sophistic

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  • Adjective:
    of or pertaining to sophists
    plausible but misleading

Word Origin

sophistic (adj.)
1540s, from Latin sophisticus, from Greek sophistikos "like a sophist, sophistical," from sophistes (see sophist). Related: Sophistical (late 15c.); sophistically (late 14c.).

Example

1. And these people are very sophistic .
2. In epictetus there are two exercises : sophistic and ethical .
3. Interpreting the zhongyong : was confucius a sophistic or an aristotelian ?

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