Protagoras
noun
c480–c421 b.c., Greek Sophist philosopher.
Protagorean
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a word derived from
Protagoras.
Example Sentences
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And so the Protagorean fable came to nought, and yours also, who maintained that knowledge is the same as perception.
From Theaetetus by Benjamin Jowett
The Protagorean philosophy thus amounts to a declaration that knowledge is impossible.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
But soon the Protagorean thesis is pronounced to be suicidal; for the adversaries of Protagoras are as good a measure as he is, and they deny his doctrine.
From Theaetetus by Benjamin Jowett
The Protagorean generalization is due to the reflection that all experience is some individual experience, that no subject of discourse escapes the imputation of belonging to some individual's private history.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
The Protagorean Law of Relativity has regard to yet another relation, the relation of knowledge to the knowing mind: these other logical laws are of relations among the various items of knowledge.
From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto
