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[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 3. Antinomies ]

Full Idea

Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made.

Clarification

'Antinomies' are conflicts in our thinking

Gist of Idea

Plato's 'Parmenides' is perhaps the best collection of antinomies ever made

Source

comment on Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE]) by Bertrand Russell - The Principles of Mathematics §337

Book Ref

Russell,Bertrand: 'Principles of Mathematics' [Routledge 1992], p.355