Parmenides

[ pahr-men-i-deez ]

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Parmenides

/ pɑːˈmɛnɪˌdiːz /

Parmenides5th century bc5th century bcMGreekItalianPHILOSOPHY: philosopher 5th century bc , Greek Eleatic philosopher, born in Italy. He held that the universe is single and unchanging and denied the existence of change and motion. His doctrines are expounded in his poem On Nature, of which only fragments are extant

A third sect, especially Xenophanes and Parmenides, pronounce it to be essentially One.

Parmenides was therefore wrong in saying that Unum alone existed.

It will be found, however, that when Parmenides comes to question Sokrates, What εἴδη do you recognise?

The Eleatic Parmenides had stumbled upon the modern thesis, that 'thought and being are the same.'

Nevertheless, some modern interpreters have found an opposite meaning in Parmenides.

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