Properties (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:philosopher
|
| gptkbp:activeDuring |
5th century BC
|
| gptkbp:associatedWith |
Sophists
|
| gptkbp:bornIn |
Leontini
|
| gptkbp:contributedTo |
Western philosophy
rhetorical theory sophistic movement |
| gptkbp:controversy |
Plato
Socrates |
| gptkbp:culturalHeritage |
gptkb:Ancient_Greece
Pre-Socratic philosophy Sophistic movement |
| gptkbp:diedIn |
gptkb:Thessaly
|
| gptkbp:famousQuote |
If anything exists, it is unknowable.
If it is knowable, it is incommunicable. Nothing exists. |
| gptkbp:historicalSignificance |
challenged traditional views of truth
early advocate of rhetoric influenced later rhetorical theorists |
| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Gorgias
|
| gptkbp:influenced |
Aristotle
Plato |
| gptkbp:knownFor |
rhetoric
|
| gptkbp:legacy |
influence on philosophy
influence on education influence on rhetoric |
| gptkbp:notableFeature |
gptkb:Thrasymachus
gptkb:Hippias gptkb:Protagoras |
| gptkbp:notableWork |
On Nature
On the Non-Existent On_the_Truth_of_the_Non-Existent |
| gptkbp:philosophy |
argumentation
metaphysics nihilism skepticism epistemology ontology relativism dialectic rhetorical questioning |
| gptkbp:style |
poetic
paradoxical persuasive |
| gptkbp:taught |
rhetoric
|
| gptkbp:wrote |
gptkb:Encomium_of_Helen
On Non-Existence |