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Taureck I 16
Existence/Being/Parmenides (Eleat)/Taureck: Thesis: There cannot be a "nothing" because it is not conceivable for us.
GorgiasVsParmenides.
>Existence/Gorgias
Cf. >Conceivability.
Taureck I 85
Existence/Parmenides: Thesis: only beings can exist and be thought.
Gorgias: ad 1. ("It is nothing"): "If, namely, the non-being is non-being, both the non-being is non-being and the being is being, so that nothing more is there than the things."
Taureck: If one says of non-being, that it is non-being, then non-being belongs to the realm of beings!
"Nothing is" can also mean that neither is non-being, nor being. But why is it to be conceded that non-being is? ("Is" must be understood here as "means").

I 87
Existence/existence predicate/VsParmenides/Taureck: even today we still perceive this error in him: he confuses the concept of existence with a predicate (existence as a property).
Gorgias could have recognized this, but the tradition does not allow that.
In addition, Gorgias would repeat the mistake inversely.
>Existence predicate.

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