... of the wind, but neither would be correct as they could only give their limited perceptions and could not understand the true nature of the wind, in that it is neither. What Protagoras is saying in the fragment seen is that there is no difference between the perception of man (a table, for example) and the state of any object (a mere collection of atoms). If one man claims the wind is warm, and another disagrees, then they are both correct, as they are just perceiving it differently, but no one statement is truer or more valid than the other. The question then arises as to how Protagoras would explain this theory in terms of the objects themselves. The first possible answer comes as an extension of the Hericlitian doctrine of flux. This is that all objects are never in a single state of being, but rather are constantly ...

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