Practice question · Select all that apply
Which are genuine contributions of the Sophists?
Hints
- Three are Sophistic contributions; one belongs to the Pythagoreans.
- The impossibility proof concerns the square root of two.
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- A. Systematic attention to language and argument
- B. The turn of philosophical attention to human affairs
- C. Asking which of our arrangements could have been otherwise
Why
The nomos/physis distinction, the turn to human affairs and the study of argument are all theirs and all permanent. The impossibility proof is Pythagorean and belongs to a quite different tradition.
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