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In 1795, G.G. Fülleborn published a work on Parmenides, which for the first time proposed an arrangement of the fragments of the Poem into two “parts”: Alétheia (fr. 1 to 8.50 DK) and Dóxa (fr. 8.51 to 18 DK). The author was inspired by Simplicius, and this division became canonical. However, the criterion used by Simplicius is a consequence of the “platonization” of Parmenides already made by Aristotle, who found in the Eleatic a dichotomy between the sensible and the intelligible. Consequently, the Poem would be characterized by a theory on seeming and being. It is enough to look at what Parmenides himself considered to be “truth” and “ dóxa” to refute this interpretation and to find in the Poem a place for the “physical” texts outside of the “ dóxa,” provided that they are neither misleading nor deceiving.