If you read the Socratic dialogues, you'll get a sense of it. Sophists would typically teach just a series of "facts." Feynman ran into something similar when

If you read the Socratic dialogues, you'll get a sense of it. Sophists would typically teach just a series of "facts." Feynman ran into something similar when he taught in Brazil. There's a difference between "knowing" the E=mc2, and "understanding" relatively. Sophists dealt in the former.