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Flux Vs Stasis

Many different answers have been proposed throughout history, and two of these answers were very prominent during the pre-Socratic period in Ancient Greece: the flux of Heraclitus and the stasis of Parmenides.

The confrontation of these two great minds and their theories, and the conclusion of this confrontation was immeasurably important to philosophy as a whole.

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To philosophy’s oldest question, Greek philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides answered with opposing views. Or did they?

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