[Carry_Okie]

That was Sophocles. His followers were called Sophists, from whom we get the term "sophisticated."

Rudlof Carnap proved mathematically that the sophists' question could not be answered, and was therefore a pseudo-problem in philosophy.

[Texan5]

Thanks-I'm not much of a philosophy buff. I seem to remember that this guy I read about lived in the 18th century and was British, but I could be mistaken.