Last Updated：2025/11/23

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

(historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.

音声機能が動作しない場合はこちらをご確認ください

See correct answer

sophistic

Edit Histories（0）

Source Word

sophistic

Noun

historical

(historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.

Japanese Meaning

古代のソフィストたち、すなわち、古代における弁論家や哲学者の集団を指す / そのソフィストたちが持っていた信念や方法、すなわち彼らの思想や議論の技法を指す

What is this buttons?

Many philosophers criticized the sophistic for prioritizing persuasion over truth in fifth-century Athens.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

多くの哲学者は、説得を真理よりも重視したとして紀元前5世紀のアテネのソフィストたちを批判した。

Details

Sense（1）

(historical, philosophy) The sophists of antiquity, in general or of a specific period; their beliefs and method.

But when we consider his wish to reconcile Philosophy and Rhetoric, it must be remembered that, if the new Sophistic differed in most of its essential features from the Sophistic of Plato’s contemporaries, it was Philosophy as conceived by Isocrates rather than Plato that Themistius had in mind.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Details

sophistic

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Login / Sign up

Download the app!

sophistic

Dictionary quizzes to help you remember vocabulary

Login / Sign up

Login

──── or ────

Sign up

──── or ────

Download the app!