Sophist

Noun

 * 1) One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece, especially one who used fallacious but plausible reasoning.
 * 2)  One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument.

Synonyms

 * logic chopper

Related terms

 * sophism
 * sophistry

Thesaurus
Jesuit, casuist, choplogic, cosmologist, dialectician, logicaster, logician, logistician, metaphysician, paralogist, philosophaster, philosophe, philosopher, philosophizer, ratiocinator, rationalist, rationalizer, reasoner, sophister, speculator, syllogist, syllogizer, thinker

Etymology
From sophista:, also sophistes:, from  σοφιστής:, from σοφίζεσθαι:.

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