Editing Eleatics (section)

=== Creation ===
The Eleatics argued that there can be no [[creation myth|creation]], for being cannot come from non-being, because a thing cannot arise from that which is different from it. They argued that errors on this point commonly arise from the ambiguous use of the verb to be, which may imply actual physical existence or be merely the linguistic [[copula (linguistics)|copula]] which connects [[subject (grammar)|subject]] and [[Predicate (grammar)|predicate]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|pp=168–169}}