Melissus of Samos

Target entity: Melissus of Samos
Context triple: [Presocratic philosophers, includes, Melissus of Samos]

• A. Parmenides
  Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
• B. Empedocles
  Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, poet, and scientist best known for proposing the four classical elements—earth, air, fire, and water—as the fundamental constituents of reality.
• C. Anaxagoras
  Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
• D. Anaximenes of Miletus
  Anaximenes of Miletus was an early Greek Presocratic thinker who proposed that air is the fundamental substance underlying all reality.
• E. Anaximander
  Anaximander was an early Greek Presocratic philosopher from Miletus known for proposing the apeiron (the boundless) as the origin of all things and for pioneering rational explanations of the cosmos and natural phenomena.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Melissus of Samos
Target entity description: Melissus of Samos was a 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher and Eleatic thinker known for arguing that reality is a single, unchanging, infinite being.

• A. Parmenides
  Parmenides was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea known for his doctrine that reality is unchanging and that all change and plurality are illusory.
• B. Empedocles
  Empedocles was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, poet, and scientist best known for proposing the four classical elements—earth, air, fire, and water—as the fundamental constituents of reality.
• C. Anaxagoras
  Anaxagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known for introducing the concept of Nous (Mind) as the cosmic ordering principle and for offering naturalistic explanations of celestial and physical phenomena.
• D. Anaximenes of Miletus
  Anaximenes of Miletus was an early Greek Presocratic thinker who proposed that air is the fundamental substance underlying all reality.
• E. Anaximander
  Anaximander was an early Greek Presocratic philosopher from Miletus known for proposing the apeiron (the boundless) as the origin of all things and for pioneering rational explanations of the cosmos and natural phenomena.
• F. None of above. chosen