Single Idea 452

[catalogued under 7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 1. Nature of Change]

Full Idea

All things that mortals have established, believing in their truth, are just a name: Becoming and Perishing, Being and Not-Being, and change of position, and alteration of bright colour.

Gist of Idea

All our concepts of change and permanence are just names, not the truth

Source

Parmenides (fragments/reports [c.474 BCE], B08 ll.?), quoted by Simplicius - On Aristotle's 'Physics' 9.145.1-

Book Reference

'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.44