Sophists were known for
A) inquiry into a higher truth through a rigorous procedure involving questioning.
B) rejecting the established view that there is one common reality because it is relative to each individual.
C) subverting the moral authority of the polis.
D) the belief that reason was the key to understanding the changing universe.
E) the belief that there was no ultimate supernatural authority.
B
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a. true b. false
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