Parmenides posed a paradox that purported to show change is impossible. How can this be since we see change everywhere?
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Parmenides' Paradox of Change
- Something can't come from nothing
- Change is the bringing about of something from nothing
- So, change is impossible
- O1: empirical observation
- R1: it's an illusion
- O1: the illusion is really changing, so some change must be real
- R1: it's an illusion
- O2: the argument attempt to *change* your mind
- O3: change as the actualization of a potential
- Change is the actualization of a potential
- So, something is not coming from nothing
- O1: empirical observation
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