Editing Heraclitus (section)

===== Sophists =====
The sophists, including [[Protagoras]] of Abdera and [[Gorgias]] of Leontini, may also have been influenced by Heraclitus. Sophists in general seemed to share Heraclitus's conception of the ''logos''.<ref name="Hoffman" /> One tradition associated the sophists' concern with politics and preventing party strife with Heraclitus.<ref name="reread" /><ref>Liberal Temper in Greek Politics, by Eric Havelock, p. 290</ref>[[File:Plato Silanion Musei Capitolini MC1377.jpg|thumb|Plato's [[Theory of Forms]] was a result of reconciling Heraclitus and Parmenides.|160px]]Heraclitus and others used "measure" to mean the balance and order of nature; hence Protagoras' famous statement "man is the measure of all things".<ref>Schiappa, E. (2013). Protagoras and Logos: A Study in Greek Philosophy and Rhetoric. United States: University of South Carolina Press. p. 119</ref> In Plato's [[Socratic dialogue|dialogue]] ''[[Theaetetus (dialogue)|Theaetetus]]'', Socrates sees Protagoras's "man is the measure" doctrine and [[Theaetetus (mathematician)|Theaetetus]]' hypothesis that "knowledge is perception" as justified by Heraclitean flux.<ref>Reshotko, Naomi. "Heracleitean Flux in Plato's 'Theaetetus.'" ''History of Philosophy Quarterly'', vol. 11, no. 2, 1994, pp. 139–61. {{JSTOR|27744617}}. Accessed 25 May 2024.</ref>

Gorgias seems to have been influenced by the ''logos'', when he argued in his work ''On Non-Being'', possibly parodying the Eleatics, that being cannot exist or be communicated. According to one author, Gorgias "in a sense ... completes Heraclitus."<ref name="reread">[https://books.google.com/books?id=gqKZ5Or119kC&pg=PA44 Rereading the Sophists by Susan Jarratt] p. 44</ref>