马克思主义认为，思维与存在的关系问题是哲学的基本问题。对哲学基本问题的科学回答，实现了哲学史上的革命，这一理论也是指导我们建设有中国特色的社会主义的哲学基础。对哲学基本问题的不同回答，是划分唯物主义和唯心主义的基本标准。把思维与存在何者是本原的关系，引伸理解为思维和存在二者“谁先谁后，谁决定谁”的关系是有失偏颇的。因为思维与存在何者“第一性”的，只能从二者谁是本原的意义上去理解。而这种“本原”的关系，不能完全用“谁决定谁”来说明。它表明的是思维对客观存在的依存性及客观存在对思维的根源性；同时，在实践的基础上思维与存在具有同一性。哲学基本问题的两个方面是相互依存、相互渗透的，那种认为哲学基本问题的第一方面是哲学的根本问题，而第二方面则是非“根本”的，是违背马克思主义经典作家原意的，是不科学的 Marxism holds that the question of the relationship between thinking and being is the basic question of philosophy. The scientific answer to the basic philosophical problems has brought about the revolution in the history of philosophy. This theory is also the philosophical foundation that guides us in building socialism with Chinese characteristics. Different answers to the basic questions of philosophy are the basic criteria for the division of materialism and idealism. To think and exist what is the original relationship, the extension of understanding as the thinking and existence of the two “who is the first who, who decide who” relationship is biased. Because thinking and what are the “first”, can only be understood from both the original meaning. And this “original” relationship, can not be completely “who decide who” to illustrate. It shows that the thinking of the objective existence of the dependence and objective existence of the root causes of thinking; the same time, practice and thinking based on the existence of identity. Two aspects of the basic problem of philosophy are interdependent and mutual infiltration. The first aspect that regards the basic problem of philosophy as the fundamental problem of philosophy, the second aspect is non-fundamental and contrary to the original intention of Marxist classics It is unscientific