Abstract
This chapter focuses on the sophist Protagoras and his relationship with the concept of truth (alētheia). It examines two of his most important fragments: the man‐measure statement and the two‐logoi principle. Through an analysis of these doctrines, the chapter contends that Protagoras held that perspectives on truth are plural. The crux of the argument is that, in holding this belief, Protagoras was not espousing either relativism or subjectivism, as has been traditionally argued. Rather, his position is very much in tune with modern pluralism, which is able to accommodate the marriage of objectivity and conflict in a single philosophical theory. The chapter also discusses the ways in which Protagoras might have dealt with conflict between truths.
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