Eleatic School

Parmenides and Zeno argued that Being is one, that change and motion are illusions of the senses, and that reason outranks experience.

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Argued that Being is one, ungenerated, motionless and unchanging, and that change is illusion; the beginning of metaphysics and of logical argument.

Defended Parmenides with paradoxes such as Achilles and the tortoise; Aristotle called him the inventor of dialectic.