Sophists
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Sophists were itinerant professional teachers and intellectuals in ancient Greece, known for their skill in rhetoric and argumentation, often criticized for prioritizing persuasive success over truth.
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How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Sophists Context triple: [Clouds, satirizes, Sophists]
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Presocratic philosophers
Presocratic philosophers were early Greek thinkers before Socrates who sought natural and rational explanations for the cosmos, laying the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
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School of Socrates
The School of Socrates was the informal circle of students and followers gathered around the philosopher Socrates in classical Athens, which later gave rise to several major Socratic schools of thought.
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Socrates
Socrates was a classical Athenian philosopher renowned as a founder of Western philosophy, known for his method of questioning and his trial and execution in Athens.
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Antisthenes
Antisthenes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a pupil of Socrates and a key forerunner of Cynicism known for his advocacy of virtue, self-sufficiency, and ascetic living.
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Ionian School of literature
The Ionian School of literature was a 19th-century Greek literary movement centered in the Ionian Islands, known for its romantic nationalism, lyrical poetry, and significant role in shaping modern Greek literary identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Sophists Target entity description: Sophists were itinerant professional teachers and intellectuals in ancient Greece, known for their skill in rhetoric and argumentation, often criticized for prioritizing persuasive success over truth.
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A.
Presocratic philosophers
Presocratic philosophers were early Greek thinkers before Socrates who sought natural and rational explanations for the cosmos, laying the foundations of Western philosophy and science.
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B.
School of Socrates
The School of Socrates was the informal circle of students and followers gathered around the philosopher Socrates in classical Athens, which later gave rise to several major Socratic schools of thought.
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C.
Socrates
Socrates was a classical Athenian philosopher renowned as a founder of Western philosophy, known for his method of questioning and his trial and execution in Athens.
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D.
Antisthenes
Antisthenes was an ancient Greek philosopher, a pupil of Socrates and a key forerunner of Cynicism known for his advocacy of virtue, self-sufficiency, and ascetic living.
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E.
Ionian School of literature
The Ionian School of literature was a 19th-century Greek literary movement centered in the Ionian Islands, known for its romantic nationalism, lyrical poetry, and significant role in shaping modern Greek literary identity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
intellectual tradition
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philosophical movement ⓘ rhetorical school ⓘ social group ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
4th century BCE
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5th century BCE ⓘ |
| associatedWithConcept |
eristic argument
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nomos versus physis ⓘ protagorean relativism ⓘ relativism ⓘ rhetoric ⓘ skepticism ⓘ |
| criticizedBy |
Aristotle
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Plato ⓘ Socrates ⓘ |
| economicModel | fee-based instruction ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
legal argument coaching
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preparing students for political life ⓘ teaching rhetoric ⓘ teaching virtue (aretē) ⓘ training in public speaking ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
experts in argumentation
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experts in rhetoric ⓘ itinerant teachers ⓘ professional educators ⓘ relativistic views ⓘ skeptical attitudes toward objective truth ⓘ |
| hasLocation |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
ancient Greece
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| hasReputation |
charging fees for instruction
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controversial in classical Athens ⓘ prioritizing persuasion over truth ⓘ |
| includesMember |
Antiphon
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Gorgias ⓘ Hippias of Elis ⓘ
surface form:
Hippias
Prodicus ⓘ Protagoras ⓘ Thrasymachus ⓘ |
| influenced |
Athenian democracy
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development of rhetoric ⓘ education in classical Greece ⓘ legal practice in ancient Greece ⓘ |
| languageOf | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| legacy | term "sophistry" meaning deceptive reasoning ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Platonic philosophy
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Socratic philosophy ⓘ |
| taughtAudience | young aristocratic men ⓘ |
| taughtIn |
Athens
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other Greek city-states ⓘ |
| viewedAs | corruptors of youth by some Athenians ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Subject: Sophists Description of subject: Sophists were itinerant professional teachers and intellectuals in ancient Greece, known for their skill in rhetoric and argumentation, often criticized for prioritizing persuasive success over truth.
Referenced by (26)
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