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The vast majority of today’s society isn’t the slightest bit aware of the tremendous influence the sophistic period of thought has had and continues to have on modern western politics. But how could a supposedly highly educated and intelligent people be so ignorant of such an important and significant epoch in our history? It was during the fifth century B.C. when the sophistic movement, founded by a man named Protagoras, was at …

…would be unfeasible for the man to whom the wind is cold to contradict the man to whom it is warm because ‘the two statements are not about the same thing’ After having explained the man-measure theory, Kerferd introduces another of Protagoras’s statements, that “concerning everything there are two opposed logoi”, A and not-A. This statetment clearly does not coincide with the impossibility to contradict since, A and not-A are themselves two contradictory terms.