English Dictionary

sophistic

名詞

歴史的

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

日本語の意味

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

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

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。

意味（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.