Parmenides’ Grand Deduction: A Logical Reconstruction of the Way of Truth by Michael V. Wedin
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Overview: Michael V. Wedin presents a new interpretation of Parmenides’ Way of Truth the most important philosophical treatise before the work of Plato and Aristotle. The Way of Truth contains the first extended philosophical argument in the western tradition–an argument which decrees that there can be no motion, change, growth, coming to be, or destruction; and indeed that there can be only one thing. These severe metaphysical theses are established by a series of deductions and these deductions in turn rest on an even more fundamental claim, namely, the claim that it is impossible that there be something that is not. This claim is itself established by a deduction that Wedin calls the Governing Deduction. Wedin offers a rigorous reconstruction of the Governing Deduction and shows how it is used in the arguments that establish Parmenides’ severe metaphysical theses (what Wedin calls the Corollaries of the Governing Deduction). He also provides successful answers to most commentators who find Parmenides’ arguments to be shot through with logical fallacies.
Genre: Non-Fiction, Philosophy
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