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Parmenides Parmenides

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Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and possibly an Awakened mage. His work on the nature of reality seems similar to some of the concepts expressed in the Kitab al-Alacir, and some Sons of Ether suspect he may be the actual author of the text. Some of Parmenides's arguments are set out in his poem entitled "On Nature", where "thought and knowledge encounter themselves head on for the first time". A fragment of this poem says: "That which is not, is not. "What-is-not" does not exist. Since anything that comes into being must arise out of what-is-not, objects, states of affairs and so on cannot come into being. Likewise, they cannot pass away, because in order to do so they would have to enter the realm of what-is-not. Since it does not exist, what-is-not cannot be the womb of generation, or the tomb of that which perishes. The no-longer and the not-yet are variants of what-is-not, and so the past and future do not exist either. Change, then, is impossible. Equally, multiplicity is unreal. The empty space necessary to separate one Parmenides philosophus, magus et comicus eleates est. Iuvenis magus fuerit: enim facere ut res evanescerent poterat. Postquam scholam de arte magica (appellata Hogwarts) aperuit sic auctoritatem amplificavit ut omnium ludibrium esset.

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Some of Parmenides's arguments are set out in his poem entitled "On Nature", where "thought and knowledge encounter themselves head on for the first time". A fragment of this poem says: "That which is not, is not. "What-is-not" does not exist. Since anything that comes into being must arise out of what-is-not, objects, states of affairs and so on cannot come into being. Likewise, they cannot pass away, because in order to do so they would have to enter the realm of what-is-not. Since it does not exist, what-is-not cannot be the womb of generation, or the tomb of that which perishes. The no-longer and the not-yet are variants of what-is-not, and so the past and future do not exist either. Change, then, is impossible. Equally, multiplicity is unreal. The empty space necessary to separate one object from another would be another example of what-is-not. And since things cannot be anything to a greater or lesser degree—this would require what-is to be mixed with the diluting effect of what-is-not—the universe must be homogeneous". Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 BC - ?) was a follower of Parmenides. For Theophrastus, Parmenides had a "twofold truth"; the standpoint of truth and the standpoint of popular opinion. Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and possibly an Awakened mage. His work on the nature of reality seems similar to some of the concepts expressed in the Kitab al-Alacir, and some Sons of Ether suspect he may be the actual author of the text. Parmenides philosophus, magus et comicus eleates est. Iuvenis magus fuerit: enim facere ut res evanescerent poterat. Postquam scholam de arte magica (appellata Hogwarts) aperuit sic auctoritatem amplificavit ut omnium ludibrium esset.