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Parmenides (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 solid, all-embracing yet undifferentiated – marks the beginning of the Western tradition of philosophical reasoning. See also pre-Socratic philosophy.
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