PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- Empedocles maintains with Parmenides that the basic reality of the cosmos must be unchanging.
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Fools--for they have no far-reaching thought--who fancy that that which formerly was not can come into being or that anything can perish and be utterly destroyed. For coming into being from that which in no way is is inconceivable, and it is impossible and unheard of that that which is should be destroyed.