Chapter 21 <Smart dad or smart son>

Both A and B like to argue.One day, the two argued about which one was smarter, father or son. A said: The son is smarter than his father, because everyone knows that it is Einstein who created the theory of relativity, not Einstein's father. B said: On the contrary, this example can only prove that the father is smarter than the son, because it is Einstein who created the theory of relativity, not Einstein's son. A and B draw diametrically opposite conclusions from the same fact that Einstein founded the theory of relativity, and both sound correct. How is this going to happen? It turns out that everything is the unity of many regulations, and there are many different relationships between the same thing and other things.This situation is reflected in the concept as the flexibility of the concept, that is, people can reflect a certain thing from different regulations of itself or from its different relationships with other things.

One of the tricks of the sophist is to arbitrarily pick out a certain aspect or relationship of things as the basis for demonstrating his point of view.Both A's and B's mistakes are subjective.The flexibility of the concept is applied one-sidedly. In addition, from the premise that Einstein is smarter than his father, A draws the conclusion that anyone who is a son is smarter than his father; B, from the premise that Einstein is smarter than his son, draws any conclusion that Dad's conclusion that everyone is smarter than his son is also a sophistry error of overgeneralization.