Sophism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sophism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Plato is largely responsible for the modern view of the 'sophist' as a greedy instructor who uses rhetorical sleight-of-hand and ambiguities of language in order to deceive, or to support fallacious reasoning. In this view, the sophist is not concerned with truth and justice, but instead seeks power. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all challenged the philosophical foundations of sophism."