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[dialogue] Parmenides (Παρμενίδης) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the more, if not the most, challenging and enigmatic of Plato`s dialogues. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a youn...
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(from the article `Plato`) Formally the Parmenides leads to an impasse. In its first half the youthful Socrates expounds the doctrine of Forms as the solution of the problem of ... ...can be considered as certain: (1) that he soon raised certain objections to Plato`s theory of Forms, for one of the objections attributed to him ... [6...
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Greek philosopher of Elea in southern Italy who founded Eleaticism, one of the leading pre-Socratic schools of Greek thought. His general teaching ... [19 related articles]
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(fl. c. 475 BC) Greek philosopher of Elea in southern Italy; foremost of the Eleatics. His philosophy, anchored on the proposition What is is,' denied the reality of multiplicity and change. His uncompromising attempt to deduce the properties of the Real – a single eternal...
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(c. 510-450 BC) Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, head of the Eleatic school (so called after Elea in southern Italy). Against Heraclitus's doctrine of Becoming, Parmenides advanced the view that nonexistence was...
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noun 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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6th-5th century B.C., head of the Eleatic School of Greek Philosophy, developed the conception of 'Being' in opposition to the 'Becoming' of Heraclitus. To think at all we must postulate something which is, that which is not cannot be thought, and cannot be. Thought without being or being without thought are impossible, and the two are therefore i....
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