The One, Multiplicity, Motion

Perhaps because of the rivalry with Heraclitus, and Zeno's arrow and Achilles paradoxes, Parmenides' The One is probably best known as opposed to Motion.  However, the term itself, as opposed to, say, Eternity, connotes Number and Quantity primarily, on the basis of which its character of Changelessness is an attribute, not a constituent.  Regardless, a problem for Parmenides is his use of "continuous" to characterize Changelessness.  For, Continuity connotes Temporal diversity, and, hence, Multiplicity, without which, Changelessness signifies nothing other than Death.  But a perhaps bigger problem for him is that there is a readily available example of Continuity--Motion--which consists in both Unity and Multiplicity.  Hence, Parmenides' own words betray his derivation of The One from a more fundamental One-Many combination, a criticism seemingly overlooked by his staunchest opponents over the centuries--Heraclitus and Bergson.  Bergson overlooks it because his system is ultimately only a variety of Monism, with dynamic Spirit as its unitary principle.  He thus shares with Parmenides a depreciation of Multiplicity--in his case consigning it to the realm of Matter, which he conceives to be degenerated Spirit.  This agreement with Parmenides thus confirms that the primary opposition of The One is to Multiplicity, not to Motion.