biography
pronunciation:
[pah(r)menideez]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.515–c.445 BC)
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| biography:
| The most influential of the Presocratic philosophers, a native of the Greek settlement of Elea in S Italy, and founder of the Eleatic school. He is the first philosopher to insist on a distinction between the world of appearances and reality, and his remarkable poem, ‘On Nature’, foreshadows the dualism of Plato's metaphysics. |
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