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The Internet Encyclopedia of [[Philosophy]] declares concerning sophism:
The sophists were itinerant professional teachers and intellectuals who frequented [[Athens]] and other [[Greece|Greek]] cities in the second half of the fifth century B.C.E....
Due in large part to the influence of [[Plato]] and [[Aristotle]], the term sophistry has come to signify the deliberate use of fallacious reasoning, intellectual charlatanism and moral unscrupulousness.<ref>[http://www.iep.utm.edu/sophists/ The Sophists (Ancient Greek)]</ref>}}
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