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    It is not the case that If 'man is the measure' is indexed to enduring persons, conflicting appearances are merely relativized to the same subject at different times, not rendered contradictory.

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    • 1.Indexing to 'enduring persons' presupposes robust personal identity, which is itself metaphysically contested and may not survive scrutiny.
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    • 2.The original Protagorean claim aimed at epistemic access; temporal relativization relocates rather than solves the truth-conditions problem.
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    • 3.If all conflicting appearances are merely time-indexed to the same person, the theory becomes unfalsifiable and explanatorily hollow.
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    • 1.Personal identity over time is constitutive of the subject; indexing appearances to 'the same person at T1 vs T2' preserves logical coherence.
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    • 2.Contradiction requires simultaneous possession of opposed properties; temporal indexing ensures properties are never simultaneously held by one subject.
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    • 3.This avoids skepticism about perception: wine tasting bitter to drunk-me and sweet to sober-me needn't undermine either experience's validity.
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