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dogma wrote:

Kovnik Obama wrote:
It's a pretty bad usage of 'important' that puts Kobe Bryan ahead of Marx, for instance. If it's the natural way of things, then it's because humans are naturally victims of sophistry.

Yes, they are. What of it? Kobe Bryant is more important than Marx, and less important than Greenspan.

Marx isn't a public figure, his work is important to scholars, but that's basically it.

I diasgree with this especially. If more people know who Kobe Bryant is than know who Karl Marx is, then that only means people think Kobe Bryant is more important.
Karl Marx's writings helped lead to the creation of the Soviet Union. Kobe Bryant is just some athlete. (Correct me if I'm wrong, I'd scarcely heard of him before this thread.) He will be entirely forgotten after he dies, and he will not have changed society at all.