Parmenides of Elea held that the multiplicity of existing things, their changing forms and motion, are illusory. The true underlying reality
is that “all is one”. From this concept of a single unitary Being,
Parmenides went on to say that non-Being is logically impossible, and
therefore change is in fact impossible. In spite of these
counter-intuitive claims, Parmenides is considered one of the founders
of metaphysics, because he introduced the method of basing claims about
appearances on a logical concept of Being.
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