在人类的思想发展史上,诡辩也曾有过小小的功劳。欧洲古代就有过诡辩学派,他们对自然界是持唯物观点的,因而起过一定的启蒙运动的作用。在中国,“白马非马”、“飞鸟之影未尝动也”一类以诡辩形式出现的命题,曾经把哲学的讨论引向深入。古代的诡辩学派把“诡辩”看作是探讨哲理 In the history of the development of human thought, sophistry also had little credit. In ancient Europe, there were sophistry schools that held materialist views on nature and thus played a certain role as the Enlightenment. In China, the propositions of “white horse not horse”, “bird of the shadow not moving” also appeared in the form of sophistry, which led to the deepening discussion of philosophy. Ancient sophistries consider “sophistry” as a philosophy