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    Protagoras' thesis implies that all perceptions are true. — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Protagoras' thesis leads to the absurd consequence that animals' perceptions are not inferior to humans' perceptions.
    Challenges→Protagoras' thesis leads to the absurd consequence that humans' perceptions are not inferior to the gods' perceptions.

    Protagoras' thesis implies that all perceptions are true.

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    A third objection to Protagoras’ thesis is very quickly stated in Socrates’ two rhetorical questions at 162c2–6. Since Protagoras’ thesis implies that all perceptions are true, it not only has the allegedly absurd consequence that animals’ perceptions are not inferior to humans. It also has the consequence that humans’ perceptions are not inferior to the gods’. This consequence too is now said to be absurd.

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