The Oracle at Delphi called Socrates the wisest man in Athens. He spent years trying to prove it wrong, and concluded that the only thing setting him apart was this: he knew that he knew nothing.
That sounds like false modesty until you watch how people actually argue. Most of us defend positions we inherited and never examined — from our parents, our church, our village, our timeline. His method was only to keep asking questions until the person answering discovered there was nothing underneath.
