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From Parmenides’ To Mē Eon To Melissus’ To Mēden

Publication date: 12.2019

ORGANON, 2019, Volume 51, pp. 5 - 22

https://doi.org/10.4467/00786500.ORG.19.001.11322

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Nicola Stefano Galgano
University of Sao Paulo
, Brazil
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From Parmenides’ To Mē Eon To Melissus’ To Mēden

Abstract

Parmenides warns against inquiring on the dead–end way of non–being (ouk esti): it is impossible to know and speak of what–is–not (to mē eon). At DK 28 B 8.6–9, he denies that not–being can be treated as real, and that it can be considered in any reliable reasoning.

Melissus, in contrast, at DK 30 B 1 treats non– being as a possible state of affairs, as a possibility worth considering as a part of argumentation, though one from which generation remains impossible. This paper focuses on this radical shift regarding non–being between these two Eleatic thinkers, resulting in very different ways of seeing the world.

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Information: ORGANON, 2019, Volume 51, pp. 5 - 22

Article type: Original article

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From Parmenides’ To Mē Eon To Melissus’ To Mēden

Authors

University of Sao Paulo
Brazil

Published at: 12.2019

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