Parmenides endeavored to achieve his goal by demonstrating through purely rational argument that the very idea of Nature is absurd.
Heraclitus was the first to make paradox a philosophical theme.
Xenophanes was a wandering poet. The times of his birth and death are unknown, but he is said to have “flourished,” that is, been active, around the middle of the sixth century BCE.
Imagine how hard it would be, if not impossible, to think coherently if we lacked the number 1, which is the very idea of Unity.
Philosophy has been called “the mother of all knowledge.” However, since this was said by a philosopher (viz. Aristotle), there may be reason to doubt its truth.
