Ok, so these pre-socratics... How valuable were they? For example, could you

Ok, so these pre-socratics... How valuable were they? For example, could you

Ok, so these pre-socratics... How valuable were they? For example, could you explain how the following sentence makes any sense and what relevance it has to philosophy that has happened since Socrates? "He concludes as follows that nothig is: if something is, either what-is is or what-is-not is or both what-is and what-is-not are." (Sextus Empiricus, 'Against the Mathematicians' 7.65-86, on Gorgias)

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