[Vision2020] Sophist or Sycophant?

[heirdoug at netscape.net]

Sophist   –noun
1.a.     any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who 
gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, 
politics, or disputation.
b.        a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while 
professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with 
ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
2.        a person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than 
soundly.
3.        a philosopher.

Sycophant –noun
a self-seeking, servile flatterer; fawning parasite.
—Synonyms toady, yes man, flunky, fawner, flatterer. n.
A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering 
influential people.
[Latin - informer, slanderer, ]

I guess I would rather be a Sophist rather than a Sycophant....

lemeno Doug!

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