Gorgias

Speech parts

1. Gorgias - Noun

2. Gorgias - Proper noun

Meaning

Gorgias

plural of Gorgia

Gorgias

Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher and rhetorician.

Examples

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

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