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Single Idea 449
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being
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Full Idea
Being is not divisible, since it is all alike.
Gist of Idea
Being is not divisible, since it is all alike
Source
Parmenides (fragments/reports [c.474 BCE], B08 ll.?), quoted by Simplicius - On Aristotle's 'Physics' 9.145.1-
Book Ref
'Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers', ed/tr. Freeman,Kathleen [Harvard 1957], p.44
A Reaction
A baffling proposal when it appears to be extremely diverse. A microscope would have forced him to rethink somewhat.
The
27 ideas
from 'fragments/reports'
21820
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Parmenides at least saw Being as the same as Nous, and separate from the sensed realm
[Parmenides, by Plotinus]
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3058
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Only reason can prove the truth of facts
[Parmenides]
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226
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The one is without any kind of motion
[Parmenides]
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1792
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He taught that there are two elements, fire the maker, and earth the matter
[Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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5081
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There could be movement within one thing, as there is within water
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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1509
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The one can't be divisible, because if it was it could be infinitely divided down to nothing
[Parmenides, by Simplicius]
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20900
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Defenders of the One say motion needs the void - but that is not part of Being
[Parmenides, by Aristotle]
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555
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People who say that the cosmos is one forget that they must explain movement
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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5115
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It is feeble-minded to look for explanations of everything being at rest
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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13217
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The void can't exist, and without the void there can't be movement or separation
[Parmenides, by Aristotle]
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22918
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What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]?
[Parmenides]
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1791
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He was the first person to say the earth is spherical
[Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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1794
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He was the first to discover the identity of the Morning and Evening Stars
[Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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1505
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Reason sees reality as one, the senses see it as many
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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1504
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Something must be unchanging to make recognition and knowledge possible
[Aristotle on Parmenides]
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1502
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Parmenides was much more cautious about accepting ideas than his predecessors
[Simplicius on Parmenides]
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1506
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Parmenides treats perception and intellectual activity as the same
[Theophrastus on Parmenides]
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444
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The first way of enquiry involves necessary existence
[Parmenides]
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445
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The realm of necessary non-existence cannot be explored, because it is unknowable
[Parmenides]
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1503
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There is no such thing as nothing
[Parmenides]
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452
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All our concepts of change and permanence are just names, not the truth
[Parmenides]
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450
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Necessity sets limits on being, in order to give it identity
[Parmenides]
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449
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Being is not divisible, since it is all alike
[Parmenides]
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448
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No necessity could produce Being either later or earlier, so it must exist absolutely or not at all
[Parmenides]
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447
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Being must be eternal and uncreated, and hence it is timeless
[Parmenides]
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453
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Reality is symmetrical and balanced, like a sphere, with no reason to be greater one way rather than another
[Parmenides]
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451
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Thinking implies existence, because thinking depends on it
[Parmenides]
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