 | Aristotle - 1874 - 540 páginas
...universal element the name of form or idea (slBos, ISéa), a name borrowed probably from Democrifrus, who spoke of the ' forms' of things being emanations...one term to express this identity, namely, ' truth ' (¿\ifoeta), which equally implies reality of existence in things, and the right apprehension of... | |
 | Eusebius (of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea) - 1903 - 482 páginas
...statement ; Protagoras of Abdera not only seems, but expressly states this. ' For he said that " the Man is the measure of all things, of existing things,...exist, of non-existent things, that they do not exist : for as things appear to each person, such they also are ; and of the rest we can affirm nothing positively."... | |
 | Robert C. Prus - 1999 - 362 páginas
...are known only through (and to the extent of) human experience: Protagoras . . . also holds that "Man is the measure of all things, of existing things that they exist, and of non-existing things that they exist not "; and by "measure" he means the criterion, and by "things"... | |
 | Larry T. Reynolds, Nancy J. Herman-Kinney - 2003 - 1108 páginas
...are known only through (and to the extent of) human experience: Protagoras . . . also holds that "Man is the measure of all things, of existing things that they exist, and of non-existing things that they exist not." And consequently he posits only what appears to each... | |
 | Carol R. Taylor, Roberto Dell’Oro - 2006 - 298 páginas
...his book On Truth. The exact quote (in English translation) is, "Of all things the measure is man: of existing things, that they exist; of nonexistent things, that they do not exist." See An Introduction to Early Greek Philosophy, ed. John Manley Robinson (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,... | |
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Protagoras said (only in an altered sense), the mind is ' the measure of all things ; of existing things that they exist, of non-existent things that they do not exist. 