Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Gorgias, Hippias and Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these philosophers

---

6 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 2. Resemblance Nominalism

18435

Resemblance Nominalists say that resemblance explains properties (not the other way round) [Rodriquez-Pereyra]

18436

Entities are truthmakers for their resemblances, so no extra entities or 'resemblances' are needed [Rodriquez-Pereyra]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]