Ancient Greek philosopher from Elea who argued in verse that only being exists, non-being is inconceivable, and all apparent change and multiplicity is illusion — founding Western metaphysics' preoccupation with the one and the many.
The Way of Truth: being is, non-being is not and cannot be thought; therefore there is no generation or destruction, no multiplicity, no motion — only one eternal, unchanging, spherical being. The Way of Opinion: a deceptive cosmology for mortals.
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