Word of the Day - Sophist

sophist

/ˈsɒfɪst/
noun
1 A paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning.
1.1 A person who reasons with clever but false arguments.

Origin
Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek sophistēs, from sophizesthai ‘devise, become wise’, from sophos ‘wise’.

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Classical Greeks paid sophists to teach philosophy. Today, we pay them for a seminar "How to Get Rich By Spending Other Peoples' Money".