Eleatic philosopher from Samos who extended Parmenides's monism — arguing that Being is one, eternal, unchanging, homogeneous, and spatially infinite (revising Parmenides's bounded sphere).
Made Eleatic monism explicitly infinite: the One has no boundaries in time or space. His reformulation was the target of Aristotle's critique of Eleatic philosophy. Demonstrated the internal tensions in Eleatic monism.
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