Practice question · True or false
Melissus agreed with Parmenides that what-is is complete and bounded, like a well-rounded sphere.
Hints
- Ask what a boundary would have to border on.
- Melissus reasons that a limit requires something beyond it, which could only be what-is-not.
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False
Why
False. Melissus departs from Parmenides here, arguing that what-is must be spatially infinite. A limit requires something beyond it to be limited by, and on Eleatic principles that could only be what-is-not, which is forbidden.
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