Melissus
Melissus of Samos was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher associated with the Eleatic school and active in the 5th century BCE. Little is known about his life beyond his name and his association with the city of Samos. His philosophical views are preserved only in fragments quoted by later writers, most notably in doxographies derived from Aristotle and Simplicius, making precise details hard to verify.
Melissus is best known for a stringent form of monism. He argued that Being is one, indivisible,
His position represents an aggressive development of Parmenidean thought, insisting that any claim about change or