Permenides didn't believe what you are attributing to him either.
--- On Thu, 9/3/09, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Annoying misunderstandings of Platonism, was Re: Baby thoughts
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, September 3, 2009, 7:14 AM
>
> Shane is totally right and you are totally wrong. Plato and
> Platonism have nothing to do with the silly notion that
> nature never changes. They have to do with the notion that
> the metaphysical structure of nature ("the really real," "ta
> ontos on") never changes. Climate is not part of the really
> real and so is free to change, as it obviously does.
>
> Which, if it were not true, would make science completely
> impossible, because there would be no way to make universal
> judgments.
>
> --- On Wed, 9/2/09, Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > Uh, neither James nor I mentioned the world perceived
> by
> > the senses.
> >
> > Would you settle for Parmenides, then?
> >
> > Let's get rid of the idea of nature and replace it
> with the
> > idea of quibble; eternal quibbling is our lot, without
> even
> > a trace of Sysyphean drama.
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