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Parmenides

Parmenides From The School of Athens by Raphael.

Parmenides From The School of Athens by Raphael.

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Parmenides (b c. 510 B.C.) was a Greek philosopher. He argued against the existence of a void, a theory used by later philosophers in the expression "nature abhors a vacuum," which stimulated experiments to disprove it. Parmenides argued that change and motion are only delusions.

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