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Parmenides believed that what truly exists is eternal, uniform, and unchanging. He argued that something cannot come into existence from nothing, and if it came from what exists it would already exist. He also argued that what exists cannot go out of existence. Anaxagoras agreed that all substances have always existed, but originally they were mixed together. He believed the first cause, Mind, set the original mixture rotating, causing the substances to separate out into what we observe. Both philosophers a

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