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As though the two things exist independently of each other.
But two things exist across the Atlantic that are absent in Europe.
Daniel Sullivan, who directed "Merchant," said, "That seeming contradiction is what makes her performances so hypnotic — that those two things exist at the same time".
We might then say that existence is not a property and mean by this that it does not follow from the fact that two things exist that there is a common explanation as to why they exist.
It is like we are doing two things: existing and watching ourselves exist.
Among its species are strict monism or the position that just one thing exists.
Zeno's arguments against plurality will seem to entail Parmenides' doctrine only if his thesis, "one is" (hen esti), is taken to mean that only one thing exists.
First, it is not clear that it is coherent to say that there is such a thing as redness and that this one thing exists in many different objects at the same time.
In viewing Parmenides as a generous monist, whose position allowed for the existence of other entities, rather than as a "strict" monist holding that only one thing exists, Aristotle is in accord with the majority view of Parmenides in antiquity.
Zeno cannot be supposing that his arguments against plurality entailed the doctrine of Parmenides when that doctrine is represented in this same dialogue by Parmenides himself as something altogether more involved than the simple thesis that only one thing exists.
Nevertheless, Zeno's description of the persons who attempted to ridicule Parmenides is perfectly compatible with their having understood the thesis, "one is" (hen esti), as an assertion that only one thing exists.
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