[MD] Is/is not

[David M]

Hi all

Raymond Tallis in Philsophy Now states:

"Perhaps the most dramatic and possibly even the most influential thought in 
philosophy is Parmenides' assertion that the universe is an unchanging, 
undifferentiated unity. He arrived at this conclusion by an argument so 
simple that if you blink, you miss it. What-is-not, he says, is not. Since 
what-is-not does not exist, it cannot act either as a womb of that which is 
coming to be, or a tomb for that which has ceased to be. Things cannot 
therefore come into being, nor pass away, for they cannot arise out of or 
pass into what-is-not. Nor can there be space between objects (since empty 
space is what-is-not), and so the differentiation of Being into beings in 
the plural is impossible."



Is the concept of DQ a refutation of this?



David M