Single Idea 449

[catalogued under 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / a. Nature of Being]

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 Reference

'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.