There's more to Parmenides than Wikipedia. The Parmenidean Proof, very simply,
is that no
one can think of nothing. You can only think of something that is. What you
think of,
albeit being intelligible or non-intelligible, rational or non-rational,
therefore, must
exist. So, something exists by the very fact that you think of it. Otherwise,
you cannot
think of it. This is used as one of the proofs by Plato for the existence of
the World of
Forms, and for the existence of God by St. Augustine, Maimonides, and Thomas
Aquinas.
And, if critical in the Kantian duality.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier www.therandomthoughts.com
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