biography
pronunciation:
[gaw(r)gias]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.485–c.380 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek sophist, sceptical philosopher, and rhetorician, born in Leontini, Sicily. He went to Athens as ambassador in 427 BC and, settling in Greece, won wealth and fame as a teacher of eloquence. In his work On Nature he argued that nothing exists; even if something did exist, it could not be known; and even if it could be known it could not be communicated; we live in a world of opinion, manipulated by persuasion. Plato's dialogue Gorgias is written against him. |
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