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Rh how not-Being is essential to change you have but to consider that all change is the cessation, or putting oft or not being of one state or determination, and the putting on or being of another state or determination. But in the world of Being there can be no not-Being of any state or determination, because this is the sphere of pure unmixed Being, and not-Being is absolutely excluded from it. And, therefore, inasmuch as not-Being is absolutely excluded from this sphere, and inasmuch as not-Being is essential to constitute change, it follows that all change is necessarily excluded from this sphere. In other words, in the world of Being there is no change, no creation, no becoming; that is, no coming into Being and no going out of Being; there is a mere dead unvarying uniformity. That is the world of reason and of truth according to Parmenides; and it is fairly, indeed inevitably, reached upon his principles, which are, that the world of Being and of not-Being stand towards each other in a relation of irreconcilable antagonism, and that opposite determinations cannot belong to, and may not be predicated of, the same subject

31. Let us now consider shortly the position of Zeno. In the world of change there is no Being. This is the same thesis viewed negatively. Parmenides showed that what is, cannot change; and his ground or fulcrum of proof was, that Being excludes not-Being, and not-Being is essential to change; for