Notes to Protagoras

1. Protagoras, like many thinkers of his day, does not distinguish between the mind and sense-perceptions as though they concerned two completely different domains (i.e. the intelligible world and the sensible one): cf. 80A1 DK on the soul.

2. Very interesting reflections are also to be found in Most 1986, who stresses the importance of the interpretation of literary texts as a distinctive feature of the sophists. Indeed, the sophists’ penchant for the written word constitutes a distinguishing element with respect to the oral culture in which poets found themselves operating.

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