1. Gorgias - Noun
2. Gorgias - Proper noun
Gorgias
plural of Gorgia
Gorgias
Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician.
Socrates is not using dialectic to understand rhetoric, he is using it to destroy it, or at least to bring it into disrepute, and so his questions are not real questions at all-they are just word-traps which Gorgias and his fellow rhetoricians fall into. Robert M. Pirsig
Another reference is in Plato's Gorgias dialogue. Source: Internet
For example, dialectic occurs between Socrates, the Sophist, Gorgias, and two men, Polus and Callicles in Plato's Gorgias. Source: Internet
In return, Socrates contradicts Gorgias' statements, because Gorgias had implied that if a rhetorician uses rhetoric for injustices, the teacher should not be at fault. Source: Internet
Gorgias argued that language could represent neither the objective experience nor human experience, and that communication and truth were therefore impossible. Source: Internet
Gorgias one way or another replies "yes," to all of these questions. Source: Internet