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 With his pluriversal conception of language, Flusser was able to follow this with: The sameness of what can be thought and what can be does not exist. Instead of identity politics, there is incompleteness and undecidability. More exists than we can say, and we think more than we can say (formalize). Truth and knowledge are not identical to language and being. Interpretations of Parmenides up to now have remained metaphysical interpretations, although their ontological champions have claimed the opposite. Only Karl Popper, as a member of the Vienna Circle and thus well versed in formal theories of truth, wrote: “Parmenides was not an ontologist [...] Parmenides was not really concerned with a verbal argument about being, but with the problem of change. And the problem of change is, clearly, not an ontological problem but a cosmological problem.” (Popper, The World of Parmenides, pp. 130–131) Popper views Parmenides as an epistemologist. The pre-Socratics are, indeed, the origin of European thought in all its variety.
+//Original article by Peter Weibel//