Metaphysics and the Nature of Reality

One of the key issues in Greek philosophy concerned the matter of change and its opposite, permanence, and many of the earliest philosophical arguments centered on matters of change, motion, and their relationship to the passage of time. In considering another issue, the question of what the basic stuff of the universe might be, the stuff from which all else is composed, the ancient Greeks wanted to answer this question so as to solve the problems of apparent stability and actual change, also related to the passage of time during which that which is stable seems to change and become something else. Heraclitus stated that it was not possible to step into the same river twice, thus indicating his belief in the prevalence of change all around. Aristotle continues the discussion of change and permanence and their relationship to time in the passages under discussion from his Physics and expresses a number of concepts and conclusions regarding time and change in the world. Heraclitus believed that stability was an illusion. Parmenides thought that motion was an illusion. Plato off

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