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Parmenides suggested it did not exist and used this to argue for the non-existence of change, motion, and differentiation, among other things. [2] In response to Parmenides, Democritus, one of the early proponents of atomism, posited that the universe was composed of atoms moving through the Void. According to Democritus, the Void was a ...
Parmenides of Elea (/ p ɑːr ˈ m ɛ n ɪ d iː z ... ˈ ɛ l i ə /; Ancient Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (Southern Italy). Parmenides was born in the Greek colony of Elea, from a wealthy and illustrious family.
Nothing, no-thing, or no thing, is the complete absence of anything as the opposite of something and an antithesis of everything. The concept of nothing has been a matter of philosophical debate since at least the 5th century BC. Early Greek philosophers argued that it was impossible for nothing to exist.
Parmenides' articulation of the dictum that "nothing comes from nothing" is first attested in Aristotle's Physics: [8] τί δ᾽ ἄν μιν καὶ χρέος ὦρσεν ὕστερον ἢ πρόσθεν, τοῦ μηδενὸς ἀρξάμενον, φῦν; οὕτως ἢ πάμπαν πελέναι χρεών ἐστιν ἢ οὐχί.
This question has been written about by philosophers since at least the ancient Parmenides (c. 515 BC). [1] [2]"Why is there anything at all?" or "Why is there something rather than nothing?" is a question about the reason for basic existence which has been raised or commented on by a range of philosophers and physicists, including Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, [3] Ludwig Wittgenstein, [4] and ...
Parmenides thus posits that change, as perceived in everyday experience, is illusory. Opposite to the Eleatic monism of Parmenides is the pluralistic conception of being . In the 5th century BCE, Anaxagoras and Leucippus replaced [ 1 ] the reality of being (unique and unchanging) with that of becoming , therefore by a more fundamental and ...
The heart of the dialogue opens with a challenge by Socrates to the elder and revered Parmenides and Zeno. Employing his customary method of attack, the reductio ad absurdum, Zeno has argued that if as the pluralists say things are many, then they will be both like and unlike; but this is an impossible situation, for unlike things cannot be like, nor like things unlike.
Zeno devised these paradoxes to support his teacher Parmenides's philosophy of monism, which posits that despite our sensory experiences, reality is singular and unchanging. The paradoxes famously challenge the notions of plurality (the existence of many things), motion, space, and time by suggesting they lead to logical contradictions .