what does Parmenides mean?
PARMENIDES as NOUN
- Meaning
- a presocratic Greek philosopher born in Italy
- held the metaphysical view that being is the basic substance and ultimate reality of which all things are composed
- said that motion and change are sensory illusions (5th century BC)
Hypernyms(s) Parmenides is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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