Chapter 8 <what's so great about you>

Once upon a time, there was a man whose father was a high-ranking official and his son won the first prize, but he was the only one who didn't hold any official position.Therefore, both father and son look down on him, and it is inevitable to say some ridicule and ridicule to him. But this man has a self-deprecating ability. When his father laughed at him, he said to his father: What's so great about you, my son is much better than your son. When his son laughed at him, he said to his son: What's so great about you, my father is much better than your father.The words made both father and son happy.

In formal logic, the relationship between concepts refers to the extension relationship, one of which is called the identity relationship. The so-called same relationship means that two (or more than two) concepts refer to the same object, but have different meanings.This is because people can reflect the same object from different aspects or different relationships. For example, the same person is a son in relation to his father and a father in relation to his son.That's the case with the self-deprecating person above.When he said your son to daddy and your daddy to son, he was really referring to himself.

Judging from the hierarchical concept of feudal society, he is neither as good as father nor as son.But instead of saying that, he put it in another way.After he said this, his shortcomings turned into strengths, and his shortcomings turned into advantages. It seemed that his situation was actually superior to both his father and his son.From a logical point of view, he used the flexibility of the concept to defend himself, which can be described as a clever sophistry.