Parmenides of Elea (/ pɑːrˈmɛnɪdiːz əv ˈɛliə /; Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (Greater Greece, included Southern Italy). He was the founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy. The single known work of Parmenides is a poem, On Nature, which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In "the way of truth '' (a part of the poem), he explains how reality (coined as "what - is '') is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, necessary, and unchanging. In "the way of opinion '', he explains the world of appearances, in which one 's sensory faculties lead to conceptions which are false and deceitful. He has been considered to be the founder of metaphysics or ontology.
who thought atoms and the void comprised all of reality
Parmenides of Elea