A Lesniewskian Reading of Ancient Ontology: Parmenides to Democritus

History and Philosophy of Logic 7 (2):155-166 (1986)
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Parmenides formulated a formal ontology, to which various additions and alternatives were proposed by Melissus, Gorgias, Leucippus and Democritus. These systems are here interpreted as modifications of a minimal Le?niewskian ontology

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