PHL 187 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sophist
22 Nov 2018
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Sophists used these speeches to attract student to take their courses. Intended to impress, confuse, and demonstrate the masters of wit and wisdom. A mixture of being and non-being does not exist. If anything exists, it must be either (a) being, (b) non-being, or (c) both being and non- being. Cannot be non-being as non-being does not exist. If it did exist, it would be at the same time being and non-being. Cannot be being as being does not exist. If it did exist, then it must be everlasting, or created, or both. Cannot be a mixture of being and non-being. Since being does not exist, nothing exists. For argument"s sake, assume being does exist. As previously stated, it must be everlasting, or created, or both. If it were, then it would have no beginning nor end; would then be boundless. Anything that is boundless (has no limits) cannot have a location.
