Is Negative Sophistry The Answer?

[Anonymous No.15096001]

“We are completely perplexed, then, and you must clear up the question for us, of what you intend to signify when you use the word "based". Obviously you must be quite familiar with what you mean, whereas we, who formerly imagined we knew, are now at a loss.”
Read The Sophist. Post quotes and thoughts.

[Anonymous No.15097309]

No one's read Plato?

[Anonymous No.15097702]

>>15097309
Whats a plato

[Anonymous No.15097787]

>>15096001
>For you say you are punk! What ever do you mean? What is it to be punk? Can you explain yourself?
>Of course Socrates, to be punk is to be against authority!
>Oh, so then the child who does not wish to eat his broccoli is punk?
>No, Socrates, of course not.
>Then I ask again, what is it to be punk?
>It is the style of course!
>Ah, so the lawyer who wears doc martins to his corporate job is punk?
>Of course not Socrates.
>Then what is it to be punk?
>Perhaps, Socrates, it is the music one listens to.
>Ah, so then you define punk by punk music?
>Yes, Socrates?
>Then let me ask this, if I had two cups, one that was large enough that the other could fit inside it, would you say they are both cups?
>Yes Socrates.
>But would you say they are the same cup?
>No Socrates.
>But you just said they are both cups. I am sorry, I am not very smart. But can one of these cups use it's status as a cup to hold the other cup and the material within the smaller cup is then within the larger cup as well?
>Yes Socrates.
>Then punk music could fit inside the cup of punk, correct?
>Yes Socrates.
>Then punk is not just the music. I ask again, what is it to be punk?

[Anonymous No.15097924]

>>15097787
kek