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Gorgias [ˈgɔːdʒɪəs] n (Biographies / Gorgias (?485 bc-?380 bc) M, Greek, PHILOSOPHY: sophist, PHILOSOPHY: rhetorician) ?485-?380 bc, Greek sophist and rhetorician, subject of a dialogue by Plato How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens. Gorgias of Leontium, partly entertaining the same doubt, and partly in jest, says, that as a mortar is made by a mortar-maker, so a citizen is made by a citizen-maker, and a Larisssean by a Larisssean-maker. 0 BDT ,B,L - and the intellect, electrified, surpasses as greatly its every-day condition, as does the vivid yet candid reason of Leibnitz, the mad and flimsy rhetoric of Gorgias. |
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