Editing Parmenides (section)

==== B7 ====
Another fragment, B7<ref>B7:cited in part by [[Plato]], ''Sophist'' 242a (the first two lines), and in part by [[Sextus Empiricus]], in ''Adversus Mathematicos'', VII, 111 (the next five verses)</ref> the next seven verses follow this reflection and concludes it: there is no way to prove "what is what is not" (v. 1). For this reason, the goddess indicates that it is necessary to deviate from this path of inquiry, going even against custom, which leads to the "inattentive gaze" and the "rumbling ear and the tongue", that is, to the senses (vv. 2 -4). Instead, she recommends following her controversial argument with reason (vv. 5–6). Part of line 6, and what remains of line 7, connects the theme of the paths of inquiry with fragment A8: only the path discourse dealing with 'what is' remains.