Quote: "The Sophists, like many contemporary theorists, believe that only provisional or probable knowledge is available to human beings." (RT, page 24)
Question: Where do the Sophists derive their name from? What sets apart the Sophists from other early philosophers?
As explained about in the text, the Sophists were a diverse group of philosophers who were interested in exploring all branches of knowledge. They believed that human knowledge relies solely on sense perception and is therefore necessarily flawed. Sophists means "clever" or "skilled man" and that was what they were trying to convey.
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