Associations to the word «Parmenides»

Wiktionary

PARMENIDES, proper noun. An Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea, in southern Italy. Founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy.

Dictionary definition

PARMENIDES, noun. 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).

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky