presocratic |
sophist |
As nouns the difference between presocratic and sophist
is that
presocratic is any Ancient Greek philosopher who preceded or was roughly contemporaneous with
Socrates and whose methods and views were influenced neither directly nor indirectly by Socrates or his primary student, Plato while
sophist is one of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece.
As an adjective Presocratic
is of, or characteristic of, such a philosopher (or these philosophers) as a whole.