Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Word of the Day
Greetings! I'm back from my sabbatical and celebrating with a new word of the day:
sophist
MEANING:
noun: One who makes clever, but unsound arguments.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sophista, from Greek sophistes (sage), from sophos (clever). Earliest documented use: 1542. In ancient Greece, Sophists were philosophers and teachers known for their subtle, but fallacious reasoning.
USAGE:
"To say that a hazard does not exist if proper safety procedures are followed is a sophistic argument."
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