Abstract

Professor G. E. L. OWEN has demonstrated that Parmenides' Way of Truth is to be taken as a self-contained logical argument. The basis for this argument is a proof that whatever we may choose to think about The first stage of this proof is contained in B 2. According to Owen's reconstruction of the argument, Parmenides' method is to take the three possible answers to the question and rule out two of them. This view involves giving equal status to each of the two wrong answers; but Parmenides appears not to do this. At the start of B 2 he undertakes to tell us.