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A person came to another holding an apple in his hand, and reaching it to the person facing him. “I know what’s on your mind, because using the method of Psychology I made you think ‘why you are giving an apple to me?’”confidently flattered himself, the guy thought he impressed someone for another day.

Any good phrase to ridicule such person?

ddds222
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    Can you clarify what was said, because as it is written what the person with the apple says isn't very intelligent – depperm Aug 07 '19 at 18:11
  • I'm not trying to imply anything about you. I was wondering if you could try to reword what was said to help understand what you are asking – depperm Aug 07 '19 at 18:24
  • What does this part mean:"the guy broke out such amazing words from his mouth"? – S Conroy Aug 07 '19 at 18:29
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    I don’t want to take this seriously because I don’t know if you are just laughing at me or not. Because I thought it was amazingly foolish in an ironic way, for stating the obvious? – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 18:39
  • Yea, sure you are the man. So tell me what I needed to do to make it more understandable . – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 18:41
  • Because the person with the apple is supposed to be foolish? – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 18:59
  • Perhaps he is a "pseudo-profound bullshitter". – Weather Vane Aug 07 '19 at 19:02
  • I didn’t mean any offense in my previous comment, but why did it have to be deleted? – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 19:08
  • pseudo-profound bullshitter is nice, but as what I posted below, having a suggestion of deceit would be the most accurate. Maybe I should have given another example. – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 19:11
  • Wait, maybe it does have a hint of deceit. – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 19:13
  • What about the person with the apple is trying to induce one's mind to think it’s a person with an apple, and convincing that he used some advanced techniques to do so. – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 19:23
  • It's unclear what you are asking. The title asks one question, but the body ends with a different question. – Weather Vane Aug 07 '19 at 19:27
  • Thanks on this guys. I’ll try fixing it sometime tomorrow. I had a headache early in the morning. – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 19:36
  • Are you looking for something like 'conman'/'con artist', 'scammer' or 'trickster'? – S Conroy Aug 07 '19 at 20:08
  • Anyway I made a rough change to it. I definitely wasn’t thinking at all when typing. I apologize to any of you who finds me being dumb this time. – ddds222 Aug 07 '19 at 20:26
  • Are you talking about somebody who successfully convinces you he is intelligent (which is what I think the question title implies), or somebody who tries and fails to convince you he is intelligent (which is how I interpret the apple story)? – nnnnnn Aug 08 '19 at 02:26
  • Charlatan, BS Artist, ego stroker. BTW, calling someone a stoker would be more insult than ridicule. –  Aug 08 '19 at 05:40

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Not sure, but maybe this could help -

It's not common, but sciolist seems to have the required definition.

One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.

I prefer this to sophist, which I think has a suggestion of deceit rather than just ignorance or error.

Source: Word for someone seeming deep and intelligent, but not really being that

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