On Nature - Parmenides

In this episode, I discuss the fragmentary writings of Parmenides, one of Greece's earliest metaphysicians.

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[pascalmassie]

"Night"? The journey is presented as a movement away from darkness and toward lights. It leads to a palace of an unnamed goddess who greats the narrator. Most likely, a personification of Aletheia (truth) but not Night.

[tehnik]

I think some of the interpretations over-exaggerate the fact that there he's providing an account of the ordinary world in case he believes "the way of opinion" to not really hold.

For one, as you've quoted he directly says that things like motion and becoming are just names, ie. not real. Which should already pose enough of a problem to other interpretations.
Secondly, Night directly tells Parmenides at the start of Opinion that she's telling him these things to not be outstripped by other mortals in his knowledge/account giving:
"Of these I tell thee the whole arrangement as it seems likely; for so no thought of mortals will ever outstrip thee."

So if you want an explanation, there you go. Asserting the world of opinion is incoherent (metaphysically). But just to show he's still on top, he provides a cosmological account of it too.

With that being said, I'm not sure what there is that would support a strict monist as opposed to the "logical-dialectical" interpretation (as the SEP article calls it). It's clear Truth has to apply to any real existent, but there's not much reason to think there's only one such existent (not in the poem by itself anyway).

[retrogore]

Nothing doesn't exist - it's a concept - so nothing exists as a concept. Like an empty bottle - the concept is to remain empty as to let something pass through. The nothing exists for the something; logic that is illogical; a contradiction.