ABSTRACT
Parmenide's Pythagorean training comes out in his preference for unity, rest, limit, as against plurality, motion, the unlimited, to which the Ionian physicist felt no objection. Parmenides is the prophet of a logic which tolerates no semblance of contradiction. The more natural view that the cosmogony is Parmenide's own can claim the support of Aristotle: Parmenides seems to speak with more insight. The Way of Truth deduces the nature of the one reality from premises asserted as irrefragably true. It ends with a clear warning that the Way of Seeming, which follows, is not true or consistent with the truth. The Way of Truth and the Way of Seeming are the two divisions of the poem: the deduction of the nature of the One Being and the illegitimate cosmogony. Aristotle summarizes the Parmenidean argument, where he remarks that his own account of becoming out of potential existence is the only solution of the problem.
