爱利亚学派的最后一位重要代表，萨摩斯岛将军。他修正了巴门尼德关于“存在在空间上是有限球体”的断言，提出存在在空间和时间上都是无限的。
A later Eleatic philosopher and naval commander from Samos who defeated the Athenian fleet. He was a rare figure who practiced philosophy not only in study but also in military command.
Melissus refined Parmenides' account of Being with rigorous physical reasoning. Parmenides had described Being as a finite, perfect sphere for aesthetic reasons; Melissus exposed this as self-contradictory: if Being has a boundary, what lies beyond? It must be void, which is non-being—but non-being does not exist. Therefore Being must be unlimited in extent, time, and dimension—a single, infinite, all-encompassing reality.
"If Being is finite, it must border on void; but void is non-being, which does not exist. Therefore only the boundless can house Being."
你相信宇宙是否真的有边缘？假使你有幸驾着飞船来到宇宙最边缘并向外丢掷一根标枪，你认为神枪是会撞到一堵神圣实体之墙，还是会直接跌入看不见、却无限广大的高阶虚空里去？
Parmenides, captivated by classical geometric aesthetics, held that Being is a finite, perfectly bounded sphere. Melissus shattered this by arguing that any boundary forces Being to yield to void, so Being must be unlimited in every dimension.
When should we abandon aesthetically pleasing assumptions of symmetry and perfection to confront the austere, perhaps infinite, reality?
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