My reference to miniature elephants crushing whales was meant to point out that the simple proof seems to be lacking something. Did I just creat miniature elephants. I guess it is possible, if humans created God.
Michael T. Scoles, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Psychology & Counseling University of Central Arkansas Conway, AR 72035 501-450-5418 >>> "Louis Schmier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 04/04/07 5:01 PM >>> There's more to Parmenides than Wikipedia. The Parmenidean Proof, very simply, is that no one can think of nothing. You can only think of something that is. What you think of, albeit being intelligible or non-intelligible, rational or non-rational, therefore, must exist. So, something exists by the very fact that you think of it. Otherwise, you cannot think of it. This is used as one of the proofs by Plato for the existence of the World of Forms, and for the existence of God by St. Augustine, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas. And, if critical in the Kantian duality. --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
