Presocratics by Warren James
Author:Warren, James [James Warren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317493365
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
This demands that any account of the world has to answer Melissus' concerns about the existence of plurality and the existence of various perceptible properties and common substances. We should note that Melissus includes himself among those who see and hear change. Unlike Parmenides, who hands his account over to be delivered by a goddess who can look down on and criticize the misguided mortals, Melissus' argument is being delivered by one of us, a mortal who is faced with a perceptible world but driven by force of argument to question its truth. Melissus, of course, goes on to argue that since we perceive all the various items on his list changing and coming to be then we must necessarily be perceiving wrongly And once more, his challenge has to be answered by any later theorist who wants to posit some underlying unchanging things in the world: if that is indeed the case, then why do we perceive things so differently? Can the evidence of our senses be given any weight in our thinking about the basic elements and processes at work in the world? Parmenides and Melissus therefore not only set the scene for much of the metaphysics of the next century or more but also open up all manner of epistemological difficulties for later accounts of the world to negotiate.
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