The arguments of Parmenides and Zeno against earlier or contemporary pluralist theories
The three pluralist responses of Empedocles, Anaxagoras and the early Atomists.

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Index Locorum

I Presocratic Philosophers

Passages from H. Diels and W. Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker (Berlin, Weidmann) numbered as in the 6th (1952) and later editions.

Volume II has footnotes collected at the end of each article; if the passage referred to in the note is also referred to in the text, this index gives the page of text in parenthesis.

Alcmaeon

24A

5-10 i 47-8

5 ii 398 n3 (381)

8 ii 398 n3 (381)

24B

4 i 172; ii 347 n42 (329), n45 (329)

Anaxagoras

59A

1(6) i 211 n102

2 i 211 n102

7 i 211 n102

41 i 197 n49; ii 368

45 ii 377 n14 (364)

46 ii 282ff.

48-9 i 211 n102

51 i 211 n102

57 i 211 n102

68-9 i 389 n30

81 ii 349 n70

90 i 44 n2; ii 347 n49 (330)

97 ii 131 n25, 322 n78 (314), 349 n69 (334)

113 ii 317 n17 (281)

117 ii 317 n17 (281)

59B

1 i 46 n4, 213 n110, 286 n8; ii 259 n58, 288ff., 342 n1, 343 n16, 346 n36-8 (328), 354 n76, 365ff.

2 i 214 n114; ii 289ff., 319 n38 (288), 355ff., 375

3 ii 278ff, 318 n22, n30, 329, 341 n1, 348 n64 (332), 361ff.

4 i 44 n2, 214 n112, 256, 286 n8, 332 n8; ii 286-7, 294ff., 301, 316 n11, 339, 342 n5 (323), n8 (324) 343 n16-17, 347 n47-8, (330) 351 n76, 354ff., 361ff., 390

5 ii 318 n29 (286), 377 n13 (363)

6 i 45 n4, 286 n8; ii 303ff., 320 n58, 328f., 336, 342 n1, 347 n52, 54, 60 (331), 361ff.

7 ii 342 n1, 347, n52 (331), 375

8 i 269, 286 n8; ii 301ff., 313ff., 327, 347 n47 (330), 362ff.,

9 ii 355ff.

10 i 44 n2, 52 n17; ii 131 n25, 277ff., 322 n76 (314), 325, 346 n37 ...

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Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
I STUDIES IN PARMENIDES
II ELEATIC QUESTIONS
III THE PRINCIPLES OF PARMENIDES' COSMOGONY
IV ZENO OF ELEA's ATTACKS ON PLURALITY
V ZENO AND THE MATHEMATICIANS
VI RAVEN'S 'PYTHAGOREANS AND ELEATICS'
VII A NOTE ON ZENO B I
VIII A NOTE ON ZENO'S ARROW
IX ZENO'S RACE COURSE
X LOVE AND STRIFE IN EMPEDOCLES' COSMOLOGY
XI EMPEDOCLES AND THE CLEPSYDRA
XII ANAXAGORAS' THEORY OF MATTER
XIII THE PHYSICAL THEORY OF ANAXAGORAS
XIV ONE WORLD OR MANY IN ANAXAGORAS?
XV THE PHYSICAL THEORY OF ANAXAGORAS
XVI ETHICS AND PHYSICS IN DEMOCRITUS
INDEX LOCORUM

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