The Argument To The Hypotheses In Parmenides

Plato’s Parmenides: Interpretations and Solutions to the Third Man

Plato’s Parmenides fulfills a special role in understanding Plato’s theory of Forms. Throughout his dialogues, Plato is pleased to invoke the theory intermittently, often as ancillary support for related pieces of his philosophy. But the theory itself remains concealed, even mysterious, never giving up a broad exposure for the reader’s immediate analysis. Hence, what we know of Plato’s Forms co...

The History of Mathematical Logic

(vastly abbreviated and horribly simpliied) Michaa l Walicki 1997 The term \logic" may be, very roughly and vaguely, associated with something like \correct thinking". Aristotle deened a syllogism as \discourse in which, certain things being stated something other than what is stated follows of necessity from their being so." And, in fact, this intuition not only lies at its origin, ca. 500 BC,...

On Parmenides' Poem: "The Way of Truth" and "The Way of Opinion"

Cosmological argument in proving the existence of God from Imam Khomeini's (RA) point of view

  This article reviews Cosmological argument in proving the existence of God from the viewpoint of Imam Khomeini (RA). At first, various views to the existence of God are reviewed and then its etymology will be reviewed. Cosmological argument proves God through universal premises about truth and world and and the Movement Argument, Casual Argument and Necessity and Possibility Argument are dif...

Time for a Change: A Polemic against the Presentism–Eternalism Debate

Both Heraclitus and Parmenides, each in his own way, denied the possibility of change. A thing, in going from having P , and thus being a P -thing, to lacking P , apparently becomes what it is not, namely a nonP -thing. Since, according to Parmenides, nothing can become what it is not, no thing can change. Heraclitus seems to have found nothing to complain about in Parmenides’ argument. Yet, he...