An Archaeology of Disbelief by Edward Jayne Elaine Anderson Jayne

Author:Edward Jayne,Elaine Anderson Jayne
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Hamilton Books (R&L)
Published: 2012-03-13T16:00:00+00:00

Obviously, the analogy does not hold, since eternal existence and the lack of a beginning are effectively identical, whereas heat and fever are often linked but not identical. Also, Aristotle seems to have overlooked that it was Parmenides who first emphasized temporal infinitude, and in fact that Melissus’ principal contribution was in having both accepted and enlarged Parmenides’ thesis to include spatial infinitude as well. In any case, Aristotle concluded his analysis:

. . . for he [Melissus] claims that if that which has come to be has a beginning, that which has not come to be has no beginning, and so if the heaven has not come to be, it is also eternal. But this is not true; for the sequence is the reverse.[7]

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