ELEATIC SCHOOL

a Gk. school of philosophy founded ey Par me nides of anne his philosophy in a poem consisting of two parts, the Way of Truth and the Way of Opinion. The Way of Truth argues that only what is can be thought, and it must be one, without past or future, indestructible, indivisible, immovable, finite because complete), and_equal in every direction like a sphere. But, since the distinction of material and immaterial had not yet arisen, ‘what is’ (or Being) meant, for Par me nides, Body and ‘what is not’ meant empty space. The Way of Opinion seeks to show that a belief in change, motion, etc., leads to difficulties even greater than the denial of them.