Parmenides

Parmenides
Parmenides
Born	c. 515 BCE Elea, Magna Graecia
Dee'd	c. 460 BCE
Era	Pre-Socratic filosofie
Region	Wastren Filosofie
Schuil	Eleatic schuil
Main interests	Metapheesics, Ontology
Notable ideas	"Thocht an bein are the same"[1] The truth–appearance distinction
Influences Pythagoras, Xenophanes o Colophon, Heraclitus
Influenced Zeno o Elea, Melissus of Samos, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Heidegger

Parmenides o Elea (Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late saxt or early fift century BCE) wis a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher frae Elea in Magna Graecia (Greater Greece, includit Soothren Italy).

1. ↑ DK fragment B 6: "χρὴ τὸ λέγειν τε νοεῖν τ᾿ ἐὸν ἔμμεναι"; cf. DK B 3 "τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ νοεῖν ἐστίν τε καὶ εἶναι [It is the same thing that can be thought and that can be]."