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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / e. Pro-foundations
583 The starting point of a proof is not a proof [Aristotle]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism
1545 Protagoras was the first to claim that there are two contradictory arguments about everything [Protagoras, by Diog. Laertius]
13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 5. Dream Scepticism
581 Dreams aren't a serious problem. No one starts walking round Athens next morning, having dreamt that they were there! [Aristotle]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 1. Relativism
1547 Man is the measure of all things - of things that are, and of things that are not [Protagoras]
3305 There is no more purely metaphysical doctrine than Protagorean relativism [Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 3. Subjectivism
584 If truth is relative it is relational, and concerns appearances relative to a situation [Aristotle]
3317 You can only state the problem of the relative warmth of an object by agreeing on the underlying object [Benardete,JA on Protagoras]
585 If relativism is individual, how can something look sweet and not taste it, or look different to our two eyes? [Aristotle]
3313 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]
13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique
606 Protagoras absurdly thought that the knowing or perceiving man is 'the measure of all things' [Aristotle on Protagoras]
612 Relativists think if you poke your eye and see double, there must be two things [Aristotle on Protagoras]
247 God is "the measure of all things", more than any man [Plato on Protagoras]
576 If the majority had diseased taste, and only a few were healthy, relativists would have to prefer the former [Aristotle]