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Which features of Empedocles’ account satisfy Parmenides’ requirements?
Hints
- Three are concessions Empedocles makes to Parmenides; one is what he gives up.
- Pluralism abandons unity in order to save change.
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- A. Apparent change is rearrangement rather than creation
- B. The roots are ungenerated and imperishable
- D. Nothing comes to be from what-is-not
Why
Empedocles keeps everything except unity. The roots never come to be or perish, and change is only mixing, but there are four of them plus two forces, which is precisely the Parmenidean premise he sacrifices.
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