me river twice, thus indicating his belief in the prevalence of change all around. Heraclitus believes that stability is an illusion, while Parmenides believes that motion is an illusion. Zeno of Elea is a disciple of Parmenides who set forth a series of paradoxes, logical arguments leading to absurd or impossible conclusions proving that actions taken every day are actually not possible at all. Philosophers have had to cope with the logical ramifications of this sort of argument, a form of logic known as reductio ad absurdum. The paradoxes of Zeno differentiate between reason and experience, between what we know to be true through logic and what we know to be true from experience. Such an approach has much to say about the current issue.
Each of the three thus approaches the question from a different point of view, though all are dealing with the primary issue of
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