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One of the pressing philosophical problems for the presocratics was why the earth doesn't fall down the way all other massive objects do.
The Prosblogion Alexander Pruss 2009
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In one direction it simply asserts a truism of philosophy that has been known since the presocratics, namely that some perceptions and some beliefs that are accepted as accurate by those who hold them are wrong.
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In Nieztsche’s times you could teach a course on ‘presocratics’ with three students, in other words, in front of empty seats, in front of empty multiplicity; today the course would be cancelled because it does not fulfill the ‘quota.’ …the concept of multiplicity is frozen into a required concept of totality: “No” child left behind……………………..
Tohu Bohu 2007
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