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  1. Greek `wise man'. one of a group of
  2. 5th-century BC lecturers on culture,
  3. rhetoric, and politics. Sceptical about the
  4. possibility of achieving genuine knowledge,
  5. they applied bogus reasoning and were
  6. concerned with winning arguments rather than
  7. establishing the truth. Plato regarded them
  8. as dishonest and sophistry came to mean
  9. fallacious reasoning.
  10.