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...was a teacher in [[ancient Greece]] in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. Sophists specialized in one or more subject areas, such as [[Ancient Greek philosoph ...udged on his own terms, but in most cases, knowledge about what individual sophists wrote or said comes from fragmentary quotations that lack context and are u ...

...|url=https://archive.org/details/oldersophistscom0000unse |title=The Older Sophists |publisher=Hackett Publishing Co. |year=1972 |isbn=978-0872205567 |location ...the roots of the pragmatic theory go back even further in history, to the Sophists. The pragmatic theory finds its roots in the Aristotelian conception of a f ...