Quote Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary
Never saw the definition you posted....I rely on my Merriam Webster...it says...."a captious or fallacious reasoner."

It goes on to say "fallacious, illogical, unreasonable, specious".....I left those out.
Well, then, it is a very incomplete definition and does an injustice to the Sophist school of philosophy and rhetoric.


It is all Plato's fault .