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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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 Benjamin Jowett
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 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 Benjamin Jowett
It was the mood of Protagoras, and of that Protagorean vein in Plato which is the height of ancient wisdom.
From Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets by Max Eastman
