Gorgias
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#Gorgias
Gorgias · c. 483–375 BCE
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“Gorgias argued — brilliantly, and maybe half-jokingly — that nothing exists, that nothing could be known even if it did, and that nothing could be communicated even if it were known. Then he spent a century getting rich proving the third claim wrong.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Truth may be unreachable and unsayable — but speech is a power in its own right, working on the soul the way a drug works on the body.”
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