Dialogue

 1 Intro|  Protagorean saying, ‘Man is the measure of all things;’ and of this
 2 Intro|         Protagoras are as good a measure as he is, and they deny
 3 Intro|          own thesis, ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ with the
 4 Intro|       this dialogue, ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ and, ‘Whether
 5 Intro|        doctrine that ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ is expressly
 6 Intro|        arrived. For there was no measure of experience with which
 7 Intro|        when he says, “Man is the measure of all things.” He was a
 8 Intro|          saying that “Man is the measure of all things,” the doctrine
 9 Intro|        which has sensation, is a measure of all things; then, while
10 Intro|         him, if every man is the measure of all things? My own art
11 Intro|     still affirm that man is the measure of all things, although
12 Intro|       not, must continue to be a measure. This is my defence, and
13 Intro|          thesis that ‘Man is the measure of all things;’ and then
14 Intro|         every man is equally the measure of expediency, or that the
15 Intro|         maintain that man is the measure not only of the present
16 Intro|  compelled to admit that he is a measure; but I, who know nothing,
17 Intro|       them by no means affords a measure of the relative degree of
18 Intro|          thesis that ‘Man is the measure of all things.’ The interpretation
19 Intro|        relater of facts, a truer measure of the proportions of knowledge.
20 Intro|         others, according to the measure of his capacity and education.
21 Intro|        in the lower sense was a ‘measure of all things.’ Like other
22 Intro|         change, secondly, law or measure pervading the change: these
23 Intro| Protagoras said that ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ and that ‘
24 Intro| experience. Through quantity and measure we are conducted to our
25 Intro|          degree; nor have we any measure of the strength and intensity
26  Thea|         it. Man, he says, is the measure of all things, of the existence
27  Thea|      Protagoras, that man is the measure of all things; or with Theaetetus,
28  Thea|      which has sensation, is the measure of all things; then he might
29  Thea|          him, if each one is the measure of his own wisdom? Must
30  Thea|         for you would assume the measure of Protagoras to apply to
31  Thea|         and that each of us is a measure of existence and of non-existence.
32  Thea|         not, must endure to be a measure. On these foundations the
33  Thea|         as the text, ‘Man is the measure of all things,’ was a solemn
34  Thea|      know whether you are a true measure of diagrams, or whether
35  Thea|     which declares man to be the measure of all things.~THEODORUS:
36  Thea|       not think, that man is the measure of all things, must it not
37  Thea|          any ordinary man is the measure of anything which he has
38  Thea|          is, as you declare, the measure of all things—white, heavy,
39  Thea|          and that the wiser is a measure: but I, who know nothing,
40  Thea|         would or not, of being a measure of anything.~THEODORUS:
41  Thea|  doctrine, that every man is the measure of all things—a wise man
42  Thea|      things—a wise man only is a measure; neither can we allow that