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Parmenides
Parmenides of Elea was a Greek philosopher of the early 5th century BCE from the colony of Elea in southern Italy. In a poem, On Nature, he argued that what is cannot come into being, change or pass away, and that the senses deceive. He founded the Eleatic school with his pupil Zeno and deeply influenced Plato, who named a dialogue after him. Tradition held that he also wrote laws for Elea.
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