Definitions for Parmenides

Parmenides Par·men·i·des

Spelling: [pahr-men-i-deez]
IPA: /pɑrˈmɛn ɪˌdiz/

Parmenides is a 10 letter English word.

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Definitions for Parmenides

noun

  1. flourished c450 b.c, Greek Eleatic philosopher.

Examples for Parmenides

Here, is in the Parmenides, he means something not really different from generalization.

To the Parmenides, the Sophist stands in a less defined and more remote relation.

In this respect the difference between them is like that between Xenophanes and Parmenides.

Like Parmenides, he is overpowered and intoxicated with the idea of Being or God.

The other criticism of Parmenides on Socrates attributes to him a want of practice in dialectic.

He felt no incongruity in the veteran Parmenides correcting the youthful Socrates.

Parmenides rebukes this want of consistency in Socrates, which he attributes to his youth.

The conclusion at which we must arrive is that the Parmenides is not a refutation of the Eleatic philosophy.

First of all, Parmenides tries him by the test of consistency.

To the passionate language of Parmenides, Plato replies in a strain equally passionate:—What!

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