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Protagorean, a. and n.|prəʊtægəˈriːan|
[f. Protagoras (Gr. Πρωταγόρας) the name of a Greek philosopher of the 5th century b.c. + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Protagoras or his philosophy.
B. n. An adherent or admirer of the philosophy of Protagoras. Hence Protagoˈreanism, the Protagorean philosophy.
1678R. Cudworth True Intell. Syst. i. 10 The Protagorean Philosophy made all things to consist of a Commixture of Parts (or Atoms) and Local Motion. 1845Encycl. Metrop. II. 614/1 The need of such a measure, he asserts, in opposition to the Protagorean notion of man being the measure of all things, which he treats as a silly truism. 1887Encycl. Brit. XXII. 236/1 Socrates rested his scepticism upon the Protagorean doctrine that man is the measure of his own sensations and feelings. Ibid., In the review of theories of knowledge which has come down to us in Plato's Theætetus mention is made..of certain ‘incomplete Protagoreans’. 1907Hibbert Jrnl. Jan. 439 A Protagorean treatise of the fifth century b.c. 1921T. R. Glover Pilgrim 176 The idea of Christian charity has been perverted,..to mean a Protagorean acceptance of the equal value of all opinions. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Apr. 282/2 It supplies the key to the interpretation of the refined Protagoreanism which the author avows. 1954Essays in Crit. IV. 55 There Arnold figures as a Protagorean sceptic. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 26/2 For Professor Guthrie this is a genuine outline of Protagorean thought. |