Russell (1961: 94):
One of three founders of pragmatism, F.C.S. Schiller was in the habit of calling himself a disciple of Protagoras. This was, I think, because Plato, in the Theætetus, suggests, as an interpretation of Protagoras, that one opinion can be better than another, though it cannot be truer. For example, when a man has jaundice everything looks yellow. There is no sense in saying that things are really not yellow, but the colour they look to a man in health; we can say, however, that, since health is better than sickness, the opinion of a man in health is better than that of a man who has jaundice. This point of view, obviously, is akin to pragmatism.
The disbelief in objective truth makes the majority, for practical purposes, the arbiters as to what to believe.
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