
Filling the Gaps - a Brief History of Nothing
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Importance of Emptiness in Metaphysics
A philosopher named Melissa is trying to show you that there's no such thing as motion. And the reason for this is that he's a follower of Parmenides. Parmenides has taught that there'sno such thing as differentiation or non-being, because they think of change as something that involves going from having a property to not having a property - which is a kind of non-being. To say that non-being exists is clearly a contradiction. So this is his argument against motion.
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