Parmenides: It has nothing to do with time, and does not exist in time. Aristoteles: No, that is the result of the argument.7 Repeatedly Parmenides mentions beings who are older or younger, who have a past, a present, and a future, and who reside in time.8 By contrast “being” is qualified as motionless. It is “now,” without any reference to “was” and “will be.” This is the motionless being that transcends the becoming involved in past, present, and future time. Being “is”—it is now. “We say that
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