Practice question · True or false
Parmenides holds that where reason and the senses conflict, the senses should be trusted.
Hints
- Consider which of the two ways the goddess marks as unreliable.
- The Way of Opinion is the sensory world, and it is the one presented as untrustworthy.
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False
Why
False, he sides with reason, without hesitation. The Way of Opinion is the sensory world and the goddess marks it unreliable. That decision founds rationalism and shapes everything after him.
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