| 1. | The Greek Sophists of the 5th century BC were partially skeptics.
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| 2. | Protagoras is generally regarded as the first of these professional sophists.
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| 3. | The sophists and Socrates introduced dialectics as a new text genre.
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| 4. | Malchus probably followed his profession of rhetorician or sophist at Constantinople.
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| 5. | Callicles is depicted as a young student of the sophist Gorgias.
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| 6. | In Greece there were advocates for hire called " sophists ".
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| 7. | Scalia is a master sophist; he plays word games.
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| 8. | Protagoras and subsequent sophists tended to teach rhetoric as their primary vocation.
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| 9. | Sophists would begin their careers lecturing to groups of students.
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| 10. | Their maternal grandfather was Leontius, a sophist from Athens.
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