Protagoras Fragments

Here is a further discussion on the existence question. I suppose if it concerns something as critical as being, all great thinkers should have a stance on the subject. The viewpoint, “for all things that appear to men also exist, and things that appear to no man have no existence either” answers the question about the existence of unicorns. Since no one has seen a unicorn, they do not exist. But because I am currently sitting on a chair I can see, it must exist. And since I can also see my hands typing, I must have hands. But this asks the question of belief? I see the effects of wind and gravity, but not wind or gravity themselves, and I’m pretty sure they exist. But that also positions me as the human judge of all things that are and are not, and I am again the criterion of real existences because of this differing of dispositions. I once again feel like the “obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man’s life” prevent me from currently understanding existence. Regardless of my understanding, it would be interesting to hear Protagoras’s stance on the issue of gun ownership if he can spend an entire day debating whether the javelin, the man who tossed it, or the game director was responsible for the accidental death of Epitimus.

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