Editing Parmenides (section)

==== Aristotle ====
Aristotle, in his ''Physics'',<ref>Physics 1.8, 191a</ref> makes reference to unnamed philosophers who reject substantial change because they hold the view that no entity or substance comes into being, which superfically appears to resemble Parmenides own doctrine.{{sfn|Palmer|2020|loc=§3.4}} However, he cannot be referring to Parmenides here, because in other places<ref>Aristotle, On the Heavens 3.1 298b; Metaphysics 1.5 986b; Physics 1.2 184ab</ref> he distinguishes between Parmenides' account of "first philosophy" which is not subject to change, and Parmenides' account of natural philosophy, in which he admits the possibility of substantial change.{{sfn|Palmer|2020|loc=§3.4}} When Aristotle introduces Parmenides own doctrines in the ''Physics'',<ref>Physics 1.2-1.3</ref> alongside those of another Eleatic philosopher, [[Melissus of Samos]], he distinguishes between the more strict monism of Melissus, which held that there can only be one substance that exists, and Parmenides' more permissive monism, which considered everything that exists to be substance in virtue of the fact that it exists, but allowed for different substances to exist.{{sfn|Palmer|2020|loc=§3.4}}