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Gorgias of Leontini (born c. 483—died c. 376 bce) was a Greek Sophist and rhetorician who made important contributions to rhetorical theory and practice. In a lost work, he argued for the nonexistence, unknowability, or uncommunicability of Being. Plato treats him, in the dialogue Gorgias, as a rhetorician only.
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