Plato Or Protagoras Being a Critical Examination of the Protagoras Speech in Th
Plato Or Protagoras Being a Critical Examination of the Protagoras Speech in Th
F C S Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller
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Plato's argument here is completely vitiated by the ' ambiguity of truth, ' l and as it completely ignores the distinction made by the Protagoras Speech, it is a mere ignoratio elenchi. For ' Protagoras ' has already explained how on his theory scientific authority was constituted. He could, therefore, reply 'My dictum may be "true" (claim) for me, even though it is not " true" for all the world besides. There is no contradiction in this, for we are different. I am Protagoras ; you. To put it m...ildly, are not ! And I may already be right, though no one else perceives it yet. For eventually men may come to see that my view is really " better ". And then the validity of the truth I now claim will be admitted. ' (5) In 171 E 172 C Plato propounds a restriction of the dictum's "cTaTm^to matters of sense-perception, exempting matters of health and disease from its sway, and he identifies this restricted claim with the position of the Protagoras Speech. This passage, rj r;/iet9 vTreypatyapev ffoijOovvres IIp(oTay6pa f which has already been referred to (p.
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