Practice question · Select all that apply
Which responses to Parmenides did later Greek thinkers actually make?
Hints
- Three are historical responses; one describes something nobody managed.
- The difficulty was precisely that the argument was not obviously invalid.
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- A. Keeping unchanging elements but allowing them to mix
- B. Distinguishing two levels of reality so change belongs to one
- D. Admitting the void as a genuine kind of thing
Why
The pluralists, the atomists and Plato each rejected a different premise. Nobody succeeded in showing the argument formally invalid, which is exactly why it forced such radical metaphysical revisions.
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