When1: -425
When2: -414
Who: Gorgias of Leontini
What: rhetorician
Where: Sicily/Athens, Greece
works\ On the Negative or On What Is Not [-425]; Encomium on Helen or Defense of Helen [-414]; Defense of Palomides [-425 to -414]
Detail: He lived -483 to -376, was Sophist, and was Empedocles' pupil. Knowing and communicating object information is impossible, because thoughts and language are not the same as objects, and thoughts are not the same as language. Being is impossible, because the ideas of being and non-being contradict each other.
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