29+ Parmenides Heraclitus PNG. One affirms becoming and change, the other denies them. Heraclitus, mainly known for stepping in a river, proposed that all is change.

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I would have to agree with heraclitus, although parmenides does present a very valid argument when placed in proper context. As the first philosopher to inquire into the nature of existence itself, he is incontrovertibly credited as the father of metaphysics. What do we think was the title of heraclitus' book?

Formed of ice rather than fire, pouring cold piercing light all around. friedrich nietzsche:

Metaphysics, determinism, fatalism, and the unreality of free will. Heraclitus of ephesus was inspired by xenophanes' idea of an everlasting unchanging one, but like many philosophers of his. Heraclitus argued for the idea that reality is impermanent, while parmenides argued. An analysis of the poem of parmenides from a natural science perspective shows that it is based on heraclitus' book.