Ironically, this interpretation of the Sophists' legacy is itself a distortion of the truth.

不过，颇具讽刺意味的是，对“诡辩家”的这一定义本身就是对真相的曲解。

youdao

The Sophists, in my opinion, deserve a little positive PR when it comes to lifelong learning.

我觉得，就“终身学习”而言，诡辩家们理应得到一些正面评论。

youdao

He used to turn Dialectic, first against ordinary consciousness, and then especially against the Sophists.

他常常运用其辩证法去攻击一般人的通常意识，特别攻击智者派。

youdao

These Sophists raised most of the questions that my colleagues are now spending all their time with.

这些诡辩学家们提出了很多问题,我和我的同事们正在研究这些问题

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

Stanley Fish, a literary theorist, has suggested that the entire history of Western thought could be written as a history of the debate between Socrates and the sophists, namely that between philosophy and rhetoric.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Socrates and Plato were deeply interested in the ideas of sophists such as Protagoras and Gorgias because their ideas were profound.

ECONOMIST: Letters