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."