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Full Idea
If Nothing existed, in no way could anything come into being out of nothing.
Gist of Idea
Nothing could come out of nothing
Source
Melissus (fragments/reports [c.443 BCE], B1), quoted by (who?) - where?
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.48
| 12270 | Being is one [Melissus, by Aristotle] |
| 3059 | There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Melissus, by Diog. Laertius] |
| 5100 | The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle on Melissus] |
| 456 | Nothing could come out of nothing [Melissus] |