What is a sophist?

Sophistication means deliberately saying that truth is wrong, and saying that error is the sophistry of truth. Sophists use various methods to achieve the purpose of sophistry. If there is only one kind of truth, there can be dozens, hundreds or even thousands of forms of distorting the truth.

Lenin said: "The variant of philosophical idealism may have a thousand shades, and it can create a thousand shades at any time." It can be said that every wrong proposition has a certain sophistry. If we want to truly subdue sophistry, we should start with analyzing their sophistry.

In the history of western philosophy, Hegel can be said to be the first philosopher who systematically criticized sophistry. He once pointed out: "the word sophistry usually means relying on false foundations in any way, or denying a true truth and shaking it;" Or make a false truth very beautiful as if it were true. "

Extended data:

The philosophical root of sophistry is relativism, which is an anti-dialectical philosophical theory. Marxist philosophy holds that it is absolutely contained in the relative and absolutely exists in the relative.

Therefore, relativity and absoluteness are dialectical unity. If you leave absolute relativity and exaggerate relativity, you will fall into relativism. Sophists often think that the existence of cognitive objects is relative and has no qualitative stability, so there is no qualitative difference.

Sophists also unilaterally exaggerate the relativity of subjective cognitive ability, thus denying the authenticity and possibility of cognition. So is he; There is also a kind of right and wrong, which is also a kind of right and wrong. This is their epistemology.