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Socrates

SOC. And yet this is the predicament to which the doctrine that man is the measure of all things inevitably leads.

Theodorus

THEO. How so?

Socrates

SOC. When you have come to a decision in your own mind about something, and declare your opinion to me, this opinion is, according to his doctrine, true to you; let us grant that; but may not the rest of us sit in judgement on your decision, or do we always judge that your opinion is true? Do not myriads of men on each occasion oppose their opinions to yours, believing that your judgement and belief are false?

Theodorus

THEO. Yes, by Zeus, Socrates, countless myriads in truth, as Homer Hom. Od. 16.121 Hom. Od.17.432 Hom. Od. 19.78 says, and they give me all the trouble in the world.

Socrates

SOC. Well then, shall we say that in such a case your opinion is true to you but false to the myriads? 15

Theodorus

THEO. That seems to be the inevitable deduction.

Socrates

SOC. And what of Protagoras himself? If neither he himself thought, nor people in general think, as indeed they do not, that man is the measure of all things, is it not inevitable that the truth which he wrote is true to no one? But if he himself thought it was true, and people in general do not agree with him, in the first place you know that it is just so much more false than true as the number of those who do not believe it is greater than the number of those who do.

Theodorus

THEO. Necessarily, if it is to be true or false according to each individual opinion.

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