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Ideas of Melissus, by Text

[Greek, c.485 - 430 BCE, Born on the island of Samos. Taught by Parmenides. An admiral in the Athenian navy.]

443BCE

fragments/reports

p.94

5100

The void is not required for change, because a plenum can alter in quality [Aristotle]

p.301

12270

Being is one [Aristotle]

p.386

3059

There is no real motion, only the appearance of it [Diog. Laertius]

B1

p.48

456

Nothing could come out of nothing