The Eleatics A. Parmenides 1. Appearance and Reality 2. Argument against plurality 2. The Reductionist Response 1. Interestingly, each chose a different one of the four.
Water is the really real.
Air is the really real. Earth is the really real. That something would be the really real, which neither comes into nor passes out of existence, but receives and loses the primary qualities. It is the Indeterminate , the Unlimited , the Apeiron . All entities can be thought to result from the Unlimited 's being limited or determined to some definite shape.