PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ogden Nash, Mimesis, Cephalus
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Philosophical greece used to be turkey, italy, greece. Important places: elea (home of zenos and parmenides) It is necessary both to say and to think that being is: for it is possible that being is, and it is impossible that not-being is . Parmenides: the beginning of logic and the impossibility of negation. If a word is a name, and a name"s meaning is what it names, then a word for something that doesn"t exist is meaningless. But then you can"t deny anything either. Say you claim there is no unicorn here. But saying this is red amounts to denying that it"s green, black, etc. Parmenides" disciple zeno supported this with a reductio ad absurdum. Assume p is true, show that something absurd follows. Space seems to imply both that there are nite stretches and that each is in nite. For the line a-b consists in an in nity of parts.
