Protagorean
- a word derived from Protagoras.
Example Sentences
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This is speedily identified with the Protagorean saying, 'Man is the measure of all things;' and of this again the foundation is discovered in the perpetual flux of Heracleitus.
From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin
The saying that 'All knowledge is sensation' is identified by Plato with the Protagorean thesis that 'Man is the measure of all things.'
From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin
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 Perry, Ralph Barton
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 Minto, William
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 Jowett, Benjamin
