The Elesian conception of reality was the opposite of that of Heraclitus. Parmenides, the founder of “the Elesian School,” thought that there is neither movement nor change in reality.

Now I’m trying to recover his line of thought.

Parmenides’s basic assumption, an assumption shared by many of the following “metaphysicians,” such as Plato, was that our thinking - as well as uttering words and concepts - presupposes the existence of the object in question. And, to secure that thinking, speech and writing are possibilities in the future – whenever you think about anything, it has to be there, and you are thinking about some things quite often – there cannot be any kind of change or becoming in reality.

As far as appearance goes, then, it seems Heraclitus’s conception is more sensible. Things seem to change, times of year change, people are born and people die. But appearance, to Parmenides, is mere appearance - another line of thought that has occupied the minds of metaphysicians for millennia - and reality itself is, making a long story short, undividable, limitless, and round – reality is “the One.”