Parmenides

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Ancient Greek philosopher metaphysician pre-Socratic philosopher

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.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Parmenides canonical	41
Parmenides of Elea	3

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ancient Greek philosopher ⓘ metaphysician ⓘ pre-Socratic philosopher ⓘ
associatedWith	Elea ⓘ
birthPlace	Elea ⓘ
citizenship	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
countryOfOrigin	ancient Italy ⓘ surface form: Ancient Italy (Magna Graecia)
discussedBy	Aristotle ⓘ Plotinus ⓘ Simplicius of Cilicia ⓘ
era	Classical Greece ⓘ surface form: Classical antiquity Pre-Socratic philosophy ⓘ
gender	male ⓘ
influenced	Aristotle ⓘ Melissus of Samos ⓘ Neoplatonism ⓘ Plato ⓘ Western metaphysics ⓘ Zeno of Elea ⓘ
influencedBy	Xenophanes of Colophon ⓘ surface form: Xenophanes
knownFor	doctrine that reality is unchanging ⓘ poem "On Nature" ⓘ view that change is illusory ⓘ view that plurality is illusory ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
mainInterest	epistemology ⓘ logic ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ ontology ⓘ
mentionedIn	Plato's dialogue "Parmenides" ⓘ Plato's dialogue "Sophist" ⓘ Socratic dialogues of Plato ⓘ surface form: Plato's dialogue "Theaetetus"
notableIdea	Being is one, ungenerated, and imperishable ⓘ denial of void and non-being ⓘ distinction between the way of truth and the way of opinion ⓘ rejection of sensory experience as a guide to truth ⓘ
opposedView	Heraclitean doctrine of flux ⓘ belief in plurality of beings ⓘ
philosophicalConcept	impossibility of what-is-not ⓘ necessity of what-is ⓘ the One (single unchanging reality) ⓘ
philosophicalSchool	Eleatic school ⓘ
philosophicalStance	monism ⓘ rationalism ⓘ
regionOfActivity	Magna Graecia ⓘ
survivingWorkForm	fragments ⓘ
teacherOf	Zeno of Elea ⓘ
textForm	didactic hexameter poem ⓘ
timePeriod	5th century BCE ⓘ
work	On Nature ⓘ surface form: "On Nature"

Referenced by (44)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Socrates → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Plato → notableWork → Parmenides ⓘ

Plato → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Magna Graecia → hasNotableResident → Parmenides ⓘ

Anaxagoras → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Classical Greek philosophy → hasKeyFigure → Parmenides ⓘ

Euclid of Megara → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Presocratic philosophers → includes → Parmenides ⓘ

this entity surface form: Parmenides of Elea

Timaeus → relatedWork → Parmenides ⓘ

Zeno of Elea → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Zeno of Elea → associatedWith → Parmenides ⓘ

Empedocles → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Middle dialogues of Plato → hasPart → Parmenides ⓘ

Socratic dialogues of Plato → includesWork → Parmenides ⓘ

Eleatic school → hasKeyFigure → Parmenides ⓘ

Eleatic school → founder → Parmenides ⓘ

Megarian school → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Diogenes Laertius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers → philosophersCovered → Parmenides ⓘ

Democritus → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

poem "On Nature" → author → Parmenides ⓘ

subject surface form: On Nature

Plato's dialogue "Parmenides" → title → Parmenides ⓘ

subject surface form: Parmenides (dialogue)

Plato's dialogue "Parmenides" → mainCharacter → Parmenides ⓘ

subject surface form: Parmenides (dialogue)

Plato's dialogue "Parmenides" → associatedPhilosopher → Parmenides ⓘ

subject surface form: Parmenides (dialogue)

this entity surface form: Parmenides of Elea

Plato's dialogue "Sophist" → traditionallyGroupedWith → Parmenides ⓘ

subject surface form: Sophist

Leucippus → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Xenophanes of Colophon → influenced → Parmenides ⓘ

Melissus of Samos → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Elea → knownFor → Parmenides ⓘ

Elea → associatedWith → Parmenides ⓘ

Introduction to Metaphysics → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

What Is Called Thinking? → influencedBy → Parmenides ⓘ

late Plato → includesDialogue → Parmenides ⓘ

subject surface form: Late Plato

Eleatic Stranger → appearsIn → Parmenides ⓘ

Platonic corpus → containsWork → Parmenides ⓘ

Thrasyllan tetralogies → includesWork → Parmenides ⓘ

Velia → associatedWithPhilosopher → Parmenides ⓘ

this entity surface form: Parmenides of Elea

Paradoxes of plurality → associatedWith → Parmenides ⓘ

Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers → includesPhilosopher → Parmenides ⓘ

Late dialogues of Plato → includesWork → Parmenides ⓘ

On Non-Existence → relatedTo → Parmenides ⓘ

Peri Physeos → usedAsTitleForWorksBy → Parmenides ⓘ

Ficino's Latin translation of Plato → includesDialogue → Parmenides ⓘ

writings of Plato → containsWork → Parmenides ⓘ

Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker → includesPhilosophers → Parmenides ⓘ