PARMENIDES
THE INSPIRED
What can we Know?
Parmenides belongs to the group of philosophers that see the nature of the material world is best understood by Reason alone.
The Goddess to Parmenides:
"You must learn all things,
both the motionless heart of well-rounded truth
and also the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true reliability
but nevertheless you shall learn these things also - how one should go through all the things-that-appear, without exception, and test them."
(Quoted in Sextus Empiricus "Against the Mathematicians" VII 111)