Dialogue

 1 Parme| himself describes the earlier philosophers in the Sophist: ‘They went
 2 Parme|       of all the pre-Socratic philosophers, he speaks of them with
 3 Parme|     problem which the Eleatic philosophers had never considered; their
 4 Parme|  honoured more than all other philosophers together.’ He may be supposed
 5 Parme|       theories of the earlier philosophers, and he sought to supplement
 6 Parme|       by the other. The older philosophers were great and awful; and
 7 Parme|      the Eleatic and Megarian philosophers. Still, Parmenides does
 8 Parme|    antinomies have led modern philosophers to deny the reality of time
 9 Parme|     occupied the attention of philosophers. We admire the precision
10 Parme|    the vocabulary of physical philosophers by ‘force,’ which seems
11 Parme|       minds of theologians or philosophers which has prevented them