Parmenides
Speech parts
1. Parmenides - Noun
2. Parmenides - Proper noun
Meaning
a presocratic Greek philosopher born in Italy; held the metaphysical view that being is the basic substance and ultimate reality of which all things are composed; said that motion and change are sensory illusions (5th century BC)
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Examples
It pertains to the very nature of a philosophical question that its answer will not be a "perfectly rounded truth" (as Parmenides said it), grasped in the hand like an apple plucked from a tree.
At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
Martin Heidegger, Parmenides (1942–1943)
The truth is, that these writings of mine were meant to protect the arguments of Parmenides against those who make fun of him and seek to show the many ridiculous and contradictory results which they suppose to follow from the affirmation of the one.
Martin Heidegger, Parmenides.
Although Heraclitus argued for eternal change, his contemporary Parmenides made the radical suggestion that all change is an illusion, that the true underlying reality is eternally unchanging and of a single nature.