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HeraclitusParmenides
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| heraclitus | first philosopher, wrote "on nature" |
| logos | world operates in orderly way |
| fire | force of universe |
| flux | no being, only coming |
| paradox of stability | mind sees and senses stability in wrong places |
| epistemological implications | true nature of reality is fluid and changing |
| Parmenides | started philosophy school |
| ship of thesus | whole ship eventually replaced |
| attributes of being | is it still the same ship |
| essential property and being | unchanging |
| contingency vs necessary truth | could not be vs must be truth |
| epistemological implications | the ship |
| Zeno of Ella | negative logic, change is not possible |
| achilles and tortoise | motion is impossible, infinite halves |