Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Protagoras, Pythagoras and Mahavastu
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13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
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1545
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Protagoras was the first to claim that there are two contradictory arguments about everything [Protagoras, by Diog. Laertius]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
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1547
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Man is the measure of all things - of things that are, and of things that are not [Protagoras]
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3305
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There is no more purely metaphysical doctrine than Protagorean relativism [Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism
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3313
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If my hot wind is your cold wind, then wind is neither hot nor cold, and so not as cold as itself [Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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3317
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You can only state the problem of the relative warmth of an object by agreeing on the underlying object [Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
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13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique
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247
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God is "the measure of all things", more than any man [Plato on Protagoras]
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606
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Protagoras absurdly thought that the knowing or perceiving man is 'the measure of all things' [Aristotle on Protagoras]
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612
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Relativists think if you poke your eye and see double, there must be two things [Aristotle on Protagoras]
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