Democritus was the prophet of science. His beliefs in atoms and reason that prevails over the senses proved over time to be a better test of knowledge than Sophist rhetoric or skepticism. The logos is not discoverable through rhetoric or opinion - those are a waste of time. The only true tests of empirical knowledge are available through logical deduction or science. All else is belief that is generally falsifiable through rhetoric. That's not to say arbitrary things like God cannot be proven to exist. If enough people claim to know or experience God, it should exist by some measure of certainty, even if it is inaccessible to the most logical minds. That is the most unfair paradox of philosophy, things can't exist without material representation. Does your imagination not exist?
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