Parmenides
c. 515 BCE – 470 BCElived
Elea, Magna Graecia
- Presocratic
Argued from pure logic that change and plurality are impossible and the senses simply lie. Almost nobody believed him, and almost every Greek philosopher after him had to answer him.
Known for
- what is, is
- the way of truth and the way of opinion
- against the void
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.