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Single Idea 1640

[filed under theme 26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 6. Early Matter Theories / e. The One ]

Full Idea

The Eleatic tribe, which had its beginnings from Xenophanes and still earlier, proceed on the grounds that all things so-called are one.

Gist of Idea

The basic Eleatic belief was that all things are one

Source

report of Xenophanes (fragments/reports [c.530 BCE]) by Plato - The Sophist 242d

Book Ref

Plato: 'The Sophist', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.35