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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: me, as the women do, if I abstract your first-born; for I am acting out of
good-will towards you; the God who is within me is the friend of man,
though he will not allow me to dissemble the truth. Once more then,
Theaetetus, I repeat my old question--"What is knowledge?" Take courage,
and by the help of God you will discover an answer.' 'My answer is, that
knowledge is perception.' 'That is the theory of Protagoras, who has
another way of expressing the same thing when he says, "Man is the measure
of all things." He was a very wise man, and we should try to understand
him. In order to illustrate his meaning let me suppose that there is the
same wind blowing in our faces, and one of us may be hot and the other
cold. How is this? Protagoras will reply that the wind is hot to him who
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