The report examines the Gorgias of Leontinoi thesis «nothing exists», draws an analogy between the statement of the sophist and the case of the «spontaneous sophistry» that occurred with the army of Thutmose I, when it reached the shores of the Euphrates for the first time. On the basis of the established analogy an attempt was made to establish the meaning of the sophistry for the philosophy.
     

Parmenides, Gorgias, Thutmos I, Euphrates, being, non-being, existence, language, thinking