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Thus the flux of Homer and Heracleitus, the great Protagorean saying that "Man is the measure of all things," the doctrine of Theaetetus that "Knowledge is perception," have all the same meaning.

From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin

The Protagorean philosophy thus amounts to a declaration that knowledge is impossible.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

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 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

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 Eastman, Max