Protagoras · Philosophy
Protagoras opened his book <em>Truth</em> with the most famous sentence of the sophistic age: ‘Man is the measure of all things - of the things that are, that they are; of the things that are not, that they are not.’ With it he made human experience, rather than an independent reality, the standard of what is true.
You learned that Protagoras declared ‘man is the measure of all things - of the things that are, that they are; of the things that are not, that they are not.’ This makes the human perceiver, not an independent reality, the standard of truth: things are for each person as they appear to that person. The wi…
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