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Protagoras

Proper noun

Meaning

Protagoras

A pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, who famously said "man is the measure of all things".

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Examples

Abusing the "orphan" of Protagoras Since Protagoras is dead, Socrates puts himself in the sophist's shoes and tries to do him the favor of defending his idea (166a-168c). Source: Internet

According to Diogenes Laërtius, the outspoken, agnostic position taken by Protagoras aroused anger, causing the Athenians to expel him from the city, and all copies of his book were collected and burned in the marketplace. Source: Internet

According to him, certainty could never be attained. citation Protagoras rejected the conventional accounts of the gods. Source: Internet

According to the philosophy of Protagoras, there is no absolute evaluation of the nature of a temperature because the evaluation will be relative to who is perceiving it. Source: Internet

According to Philodemus, Protagoras said that "The subject matter is unknowable and the terminology distasteful". Source: Internet

As many modern thinkers will, Plato ascribes relativism to Protagoras and uses his predecessor's teachings as a foil for his own commitment to objective and transcendent realities and values. Source: Internet

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