Story 1What is real, and what remains through change?
Parmenides — Does speaking of change require speaking of what is not?
The question that opens it
When we speak of coming-to-be and passing-away, are we really thinking what is not?
What changes as you read the work
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Parmenides' poem divides routes of inquiry and presses radical constraints on what can be thought and spoken of as being.
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Parmenides
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §2 Overview of Parmenides’ Poem; §3.2 The Way of Conviction
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The slogan that he simply declares all change illusory is contested; contemporary scholarship offers competing monist and modal interpretations.
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Parmenides
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Locator: §3 Some Main Types of Interpretation; §3.8 What Is and Cannot Not Be
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