Meaning of "Being alone is and nothing is altogether not."
  • Mind Dough
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    Being alone is and nothing is altogether not. — Parmenides

    As I could not find any meaningful discussion about the contents of this quote, I am curios what you guys think Parmenides meant by it.
    I find myself inspired by his ways of thinking, and would like to learn more about it.

    My interpretation of the quote is simply "Being alone is" and "nothing is altogether not". Meaning being is all there is. Nothing is not a thing. But I am very interested to hear other interpretations, and the sentence is very open to it.
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  • Sir2u
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    But I am very interested to hear other interpretations, and the sentence is very open to it. — Mind Dough

    It is impossible to be alone and nothing does not exist. Thus they are not.
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  • Cavacava
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    ↪Mind Dough

    Being alone is and nothing is altogether not.

    It is his way of clearing the decks, similar to how Descartes clears what is from what is not. What is not can't be thought, but what is can be thought, so then being or cogito.
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