After Empedocles had broken up the indivisible, motionless, and timeless reality of Parmenides and Zeno into four elements played upon alternately by Love and Strife, it was a short step for the Atomists of the 5th century bc, Leucippus and Democritus, to break up reality still further into an innumerable host of minute atoms moving in time through a vacuum.
After Empedocles had broken up the indivisible, motionless, and timeless reality of Parmenides and Zeno into four elements played upon alternately by Love and Strife, it was a short step for the atomists of the 5th century bce, Leucippus and Democritus, to break up reality still further into an innumerable host of minute atoms moving in time through a vacuum.
He broke up the Eleatics' motionless, and therefore timeless, unitary reality into a movement of four elements that were alternately harmonized by Love and set at variance by Strife.
And the element is invariable by definition, being a diagram, a simplified reconstruction, often a mere symbol, in any case a motionless view of the moving reality.
Warhol pioneered motion pictures of motionless subjects; and we have him to thank, or not, for prophesying reality television.
Parmenides, an Eleatic philosopher (6th 5th century bce) and Zeno, his fellow townsman and disciple, held that change is logically inconceivable and that logic is a surer indicator of reality than experience; thus, despite appearances, reality is unitary and motionless.
Parmenides, an Italiote Greek (Eleatic) philosopher (6th 5th century bc) and Zeno, his fellow townsman and disciple, held that change is logically inconceivable and that logic is a surer indicator of reality than experience; thus, despite appearances, reality is unitary and motionless.
When the boy dies, Jim takes the cigarette from his lips and sits motionless, looking at him, as, in a shot Vidor seems to extend to eternity, the reality of death settles in.
The reality is that most animals — certainly most reptiles — spend most of their time doing nothing, remaining motionless.
The mousetrap remains motionless.
