Principle of Contradiction and Reverse Ontology: The Passage from Word to Being in the Gorgias of Leontini's Treatise on the Nature
Gorgias, non-being, contradiction, ontology, language.
The present research project has as its object the problem related to the principle of contradiction expressed in the notion of non-being of Gorgias of Leontini, as it is presented in the "Against the Mathematicians", by Sextus Empiricus, and in the text of the anonymous author “ Melisso Xenophanes and Gorgias” (MXG). The Gorgian non-being is opposed to the metaphysical principles of identity and non-contradiction that are born with the notion of being expressed in Parmenides of Elea's “On Nature”. The Gorgian notions of being and non-being are considered to correspond to a “reverse mirror” that will provide an inversion of the adequacy between being, thinking and saying, as this adequacy is postulated by Eleatic intuitions.