Tag: parmenides
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Being and Some Philosophers: Parmenides
What’s so interesting about a bunch of Greek guys from 2500 years ago? As one of my friends back home put it so succinctly, “Why should I care about a bunch of old dead white dudes?” After all, they didn’t even have access to the technology we have today. They didn’t have the ability to…
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Is Change Real, or is Change All There Is?
(Written Nov. 2020) To give you the short answer, contrary to Parmenides, change is real, and contrary to Heraclitus, change is not all there is. But let’s take a look why they were wrong… As you may know, Parmenides denied that there was any change in the world. His argument is fairly simple. Change is…
The Reluctant Philosopher 