Famously Plato argued against sophist thinkers such as Gorgias of Leontini, who held the physical world cannot be experienced except through language, this meant that for Gorgias the question of truth was dependent on aesthetic preferences or functional consequences.

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An application: Famously and controversially, in the philosophy of the Greek Anaxagoras ( at least as it is discussed by the Roman Atomist Lucretius ), it was assumed that the atoms constituting a substance must themselves have the salient observed properties of that substance: so atoms of water would be wet, atoms of iron would be hard, atoms of wool would be soft, etc.

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Machiavelli argued that, had Cesare been able to win the favor of the new Pope, he would have been a very successful ruler.

Others have argued that Machiavelli is only a particularly interesting example of trends which were happening around him.

Leo Strauss argued that the strong influence of Xenophon, a student of Socrates more known as an historian, rhetorician and soldier, was a major source of Socratic ideas for Machiavelli, sometimes not in line with Aristotle.

Aimed-for things which the Socratics argued would tend to happen by nature, Machiavelli said would happen by chance.

Strauss argued that Machiavelli may have seen himself as influenced by some ideas from classical materialists such as Democritus, Epicurus and Lucretius.

Strauss argued that Machiavelli may indeed have been influenced by pre-Socratic philosophers, but he felt it was a new combination :-

Najemy shows how Machiavelli's friend Vettori argued against Machiavelli and cited a more traditional understanding of fortune.

While Machiavelli's approach had classical precedents, it has been argued that it did more than just bring back old ideas, and that Machiavelli was not a typical humanist.

Machiavelli argued against seeing mere peace and economic growth as worthy aims on their own, if they would lead to what Mansfield calls the " taming of the prince.

saw him as a major source of the republicanism that spread throughout England and North America in the 17th and 18th centuries and Leo, whose view of Machiavelli is quite different in many ways, agreed about Machiavelli's influence on republicanism and argued that even though Machiavelli was a teacher of evil he had a nobility of spirit that led him to advocate ignoble actions.

Scholars have argued that Machiavelli was a major indirect and direct influence upon the political thinking of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

At approximately the same period, Niccolò Machiavelli argued against the use of mercenary armies in his masterpiece The Prince.

Machiavelli argued, for example, that violent divisions within political communities are unavoidable, but can also be a source of strength which law-makers and leaders should account for and even encourage in some ways ( Strauss 1987 ).

Richard Beacon in Solon His Follie ( 1594 ), directed towards English colonisation in Ireland, used text derived from the Six livres, as well as much theory from Machiavelli ; he also argued against Bodin the proposition that France was a mixed monarchy.

Machiavelli focused on the consistency and clear oratory of the magistrates, and argued that with no clear and consistent rationale for rule, it was inordinately difficult to maintain it.

A critical period in the history of this work's influence is at the end of the Middle Ages, and beginning of modernity, when several authors such as Niccolò Machiavelli, Francis Bacon and Thomas Hobbes, argued forcefully and largely successfully that the medieval Aristotelian tradition in practical thinking had become a great impediment to practical political thinking in their time.

It has been argued that Machiavelli was not a classical republican, since he described mostly medieval political relations.

The idealized Prince bears some resemblance to Tacitus's Tiberius ; a few ( most notably Giuseppe Toffanin ) have argued that Machiavelli had made more use of Tacitus than he let on.