Why did Parmenides distrust sensory experience?
The senses present us with a world of change, of coming into being and passing away, of difference and multiplicity. But my reason, guided by logic, demonstrates that these are contradictions. Change implies a movement from what is to what is not, or from what is not to what is. Since Non-Being is unthinkable and impossible, the evidence of the senses must be deceptive. Truth lies in rational apprehension of Being.
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