metaphysician vs sophist

metaphysician

noun
  • A philosopher who specializes in the scholarly study of metaphysics. 

sophist

noun
  • A teacher who uses plausible but fallacious reasoning. 

  • One of a class of teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece. 

  • One who is captious, fallacious, or deceptive in argument. 

How often have the words metaphysician and sophist occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )