Bertrand Russell (essay date 1945)
SOURCE: Bertrand Russell, "Parmenides," in A History of Western Philosophy, and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1945, pp. 48-52.
[In the following excerpt, Russell argues that Parmenides did not consider the perpetual change in the meaning of words, leading to the fallacy of the impossibility of all change.]
The Greeks were not addicted to moderation, either in their theories or in their practice. Heraclitus maintained...
Source: Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, ©1997 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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