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Quotation from Parmenides by Plato

“he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy the power of reasoning”

Plato (spoken by Parmenides)

Parmenides, Stephanus 135b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Having raised every objection, Parmenides warns that denying the Forms altogether would make thought impossible.

Citation: "he will have nothing on which his mind can rest; and so he will utterly destroy the power of reasoning" — Plato, Parmenides, Stephanus 135b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-parmenides-q5)

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