Sophists (Greek philosophy)
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found: Oxford classical dict., via WWW, accessed Nov. 2, 2006(Sophists: itinerant professors of higher education; from its original senses of 'sage' and 'expert' the word came to be applied in the 5th cent. BC in the technical sense given above to a number of individuals who travelled widely through the Greek world, giving popular lectures and specialized instruction in a wide range of topics; they are not a school, or even a single movement, having neither a common set of doctrines nor any shared organization)
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1986-02-11: new
2007-01-06: revised
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