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In opposition to Anaximander, Parmenides of Elea, Italy (480 B.C.) was a monist. That is, he held that the universe consists of only one object. The number of things that exists is just one.
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Anglin, W.S. (1994). The Need for the Infinite. In: Mathematics: A Concise History and Philosophy. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0875-4_8
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