Getting a Move On

The Parmenides Challenge

The Thomist makes the following observation:Parmenides’s challenge to philosophy is his claim that motion and becoming are opinions as opposed to truths. Motion and becoming, according to him, are no more features of the world than pain is a feature of a dental drill. We are certainly used to challenges like this: for several centuries, for example, people have insisted that colors and tastes and other “secondary qualities” are not features of the world, but some sort ...