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Today I learned about the "A series" and "B series" perspectives on time. B series 4 life! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_series_and_B_series #Parmenides

For #Parmenides, stability was the only reality; change was transient.

For #Heraclitus, change was the only reality, and stability was transient.

#stability #change

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I must, therefore, cast my bread upon the waters and trust search engines to eventually find the few people who might be interested lurking in the long tail of the internet.

Keywords: #philosophy #plato #parmenides #numberTheory #subitization

https://ibiblio.org/bosak/pub/numbers-parmenides-20240331.pdf

Apropos of Nothing | FT | The New York Review of Books
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/07/21/absence-and-nothing-stephen-mumford/
#BertrandRussell
#Parmenides
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#RoySorensen

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Do you mean John Palmer's 2009 book? (He wrote the SEP article.) I think it's had a very favorable reception.

If you want something that looks at the poetry and the Greek, I'm still partial to my advisor's book: Alex Mourelatos, The Route of Parmenides. And Matt Evans' book will be great when it comes out.

#GreekPhilosophy #Parmenides #Presocratics #PresocraticPhilosophy

Parmenides would argue that Being alone exists and that Truth was to think - the One and only the One. In his poem revealed to him by a Goddess in the House of Night, he would effectively invent Western Metaphysics and Logic. Dr Justin Sledge explains:
https://youtu.be/rh2l8ZvG7xA
#esoterica #philosophy #Parmenides #history

@bodhidave I imagine you'll have got into Parmenides? I got a lot from Peter Kingsley's takes on him in 'Reality'. #presocratics #Parmenides #meditation

@bryankam Hey, found this lecture that explains Plato's dialogue Parmenides as Plato's own self-critique so that you don't have to read the mess yourself 😂 I queued up the video so you don't have to watch the whole thing (it just introduces theory of forms and other stuff you know.) It only covers a couple of arguments but you can get the idea from it and then just multiply by 500.

https://youtu.be/CClQSBvRszI?list=PLV6A9JHmsrDZCL2a1s4du_kO-qQcbTKho&t=2271

#philosophy #plato #parmenides

Is there any #philosophy you've read that you just think, no, I refuse all of this, everything. Not "I disagree" or "this is wrong" but "I refuse to proceed, please stop the car, I'm getting out." I feel like this about #Parmenides

Updated #ReadingLog: #Abelard, #SextusEmpiricus, #DependentOrigination, History of #Philosophy podcast on #Parmenides, #Zeno, #Melissus https://clerestory.netlify.app/reading/

Yep it is, 4.1 of Introduction to #Metaphysics, p105–7 in the Fried/Polt, basically #Heidegger is opposed to the opposition of Being and becoming (I'm fine without that opposition). What I object to in #Parmenides has more to do with his attitude toward the senses than his stupid thing about Being

I get #Plato's description of the opposition of #Heraclitus and #Parmenides is wrong (H is not about flux) and I get the superficial similarities in their #philosophy that everyone is misled but they *are* opposed on the only important question, that of the senses, aren't they?

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It was #Kant suggesting that, where the #mathematician starts, #philosopher 's work is already done [Über die Deutlichkeit der Grundsätze... §1...]

Of course in a formal system, say #FOL, #identity is simply the strictest equivalence relation, the unit classes of the domain being its equivalence classes. And yes, this is really elementary stuff, high school level, if you like. And no, that's not, why #philosophers at least since #Leibniz (and in a sense since #Parmenides), and more recently #Frege made a case for it.

Typically math philosophical issues with identity from my point of view do include the question of indiscernibles, the sense of an identity statement wrt. redundance, the relation status of identity, ... open list

Oh brave new interface, that has such people in it!

I'm a professor of #Philosophy and #Classics at #umich, specializing in Greek and Roman philosophy, esp. the philosophy of mind (#intentionality, #consciousness, #MindBody, #perception). I have published mostly on #Aristotle and the #Stoics, but have interests from #Parmenides and #Gorgias through #Augustine.

I love #BaroqueOpera, #KingCrimson, #Calligraphy (broad edge and #Copperplate), and the game of #Go.