Sophists can make the lesser appear the greater reasoning....through rationalization; yet, this does not make it the Truth...They are satisfied to have, even by confusion, convinced others that their thinking is of a high consciousness.  The "noble" mind seeks, in humbleness, to discover and be transformed by thinking less governed by the reptile brain...  I refer to "rationalization" in the sense of logical justification of one's philosophy, life and actions through even the most arcane and convoluted logic.......i.e.  Hitler's rationalizations for killing Jews, Homosexuals or others that deviated from his "suitable for Life" lists....transformative expression of Ego.....So many "words" have so many meanings relative to the context  within which they appear or in which they are utilized, of course.....and unenlightened creatures utilize whatever means that are accessible to convince others that they are "right".  It is the goal of enlightenment, of Buddahood, to find the Truth which is "made" manifest in The Good Life of devotion to the evolution of Mind....This evolution is demonstrated by the Lives of the wise, sentient and compassionate, who strive for the advancement of humanity over their own desires for power and control.  Certainty is a "thing" sought by the naive, who are but a synapse beyond dogma and romantic infatuation with Platonic thinking......The brave must survive without the commiserations of self-satisfaction.........Although we may seek to "starve" the ego, shriveling it to invisibility......it will rehydrate when it seeks and gains audience......It is the gizzard at the top of the brain stem....the hard-wired mechanism for survival as a Creature, largely unchanged....even by a million years of evolution......still pillaging the halls of Heorot....The Path is not through the jungle or in the clouds.....The Path is a garden of forking paths (Borges).....within which we must trust the Mind's eye to find our Way.  It is not the disingenuous Ego that is illusory,  but the presumption that we are anywhere approaching Enlightenment, which will always be at great distance from where one is......

    Mystic Journey - ancient sounds of the Diruba by Gopal