Empedocles said that the … Parmenides’ theory of the One made a huge impact on the philosophers that followed. (the one) Parmenides b. To say of what is that it is, can only be to say that it exists. Parmenides (c. 485 BCE) of Elea was a Greek philosopher from the colony of Elea in southern Italy.He is known as the founder of the Eleatic School of philosophy which taught a strict Monistic view of reality.

515 Eleatic School The birth of thinking in the abstract, i.e.

So they made various compromises.

Now, the Milesians say that what is was one but became many. They couldn’t agree that the One was all there is, but the argument that Parmenides gave seemed to be compelling. without reference to the facts of common sense.

Philosophical Monism is the belief that all of the sensible world is of one, basic, substance and being, un-created and indestructible.

Parmenides: Reason about the words.