ophists believed that only provisional or probable knowledge was available to human beings, Plato believed that absolute
             knowledge was attainable. Since the Sophists traveled around and saw many different societies with many different perceptions of reality and the gods, they became relativists (Murphy, 1983). Although Plato, most of who's writings have come down to us, berated the Sophists for not being concerned with truth, but only in making money and securing success in argument by any means possible, the Sophists were highly concerned with truth as they saw it. They just didn't see it the way Plato saw it. The Sophists saw human nature as shaped by social circumstances.
             Sophistic rhetoric was divided into two main schools: that of Protagoras and that of Gorgias. Protagoras was a relativist who believed that morals are not universal and absolute, but culturally or socially determined. Gorgias emphasized the power of rhetoric, both nonverbal and ve
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