For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can b… - Parmenides

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For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.

Parmenides

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Parmenides (fl. early 5th century BC) was an ancient Greek monist philosopher born in Elea, a Greek city on the southern coast of Italy, and founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form, in which he argues that Reality is One, change is impossible, and that existence is timeless and uniform.

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Native Name: Παρμενίδης

Alternative Names: Parmenides of Elea

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It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.

The only roads of enquiry there are to think of: one, that it is and that it is not possible for it not to be, this is the path of persuasion (for truth is its companion); the other, that it is not and that it must not be — this I say to you is a path wholly unknowable.

Do not let habit, born from experience, force you along this road, directing aimless eye and echoing ear and tongue; but judge by reason the much contested proof which I have spoken.

For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be. - Parmenides

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