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  • Socrates
    Eleaticism
    / The decline of Eleaticism

    …of every Not-Being as a heteron (i.e., as a being characterized only by its difference from “another” being) is neither in Gorgias nor in the Parmenides but in the Sophist of Plato. There Plato argued that the antinomy between on and mē-on (Being and Not-Being) does not really exist, the…

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    …of every Not-Being as a heteron (i.e., as a being characterized only by its difference from “another” being) is neither in Gorgias nor in the Parmenides but in the Sophist of Plato. There Plato argued that the antinomy between on and mē-on (Being and Not-Being) does not really exist, the…

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