Single Idea 3313

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism]

Full Idea

Because the wind is cold to me but not you, Protagoras takes it to in itself neither cold nor not-cold. Accordingly, I very much doubt that he can allow the wind to be exactly as cold as itself.

Gist of Idea

If my hot wind is your cold wind, then wind is neither hot nor cold, and so not as cold as itself

Source

comment on Protagoras (fragments/reports [c.441 BCE]) by José A. Benardete - Metaphysics: the logical approach Ch.8

Book Reference

Benardete,José A.: 'Metaphysics: The Logical Approach' [OUP 1989], p.49