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Parmenides’ poem argues about what can be thought and what could come into being. How that argument relates to the changing world remains a difficulty.
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Guided course · Module 5 · Lesson 19
What stays the same when things change?
Heraclitus finds order in change, and Parmenides asks whether being could ever begin. Their surviving words are kept apart from the later reports that frame how they are read.