[Vision2020] Sophist or Sycophant?

[debismith at moscow.com]

Too bad, I suppose, that you are not...
Debi R-S

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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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