PARMENIDES

BIO

• Early Greek philosophy's most challenging
• Results in many disagreements about the fundamentals
• 1st Metaphysical Thinker
• A Monist vs. Naive Cosmological Predecessors
• Paradox of Non-Existent Objects

STRICT MONISM

• There exists exactly one thing
• World of Ordinary Experience
• Change, Plurality, Our Selves
• Entirely Deceptive
• Reality: a strict unity.

AGAINST ASSUMPTIONS

• Change
• Time
• Plurality
• Sensible World

Plato & Aristotle
- the first to have developed the idea that apprehension of what is unchanging is of a different order epistemologically than that of things subject to change.