Zeno of Elea
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Zeno of Elea
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Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics. Born in Elea, Zeno defended his instructor's belief in monism, the idea that only one single entity exists that makes up all of reality. He rejected the existence of space, time, and motion. To disprove these concepts, he developed a series of paradoxes to demonstrate why they are impossible. Though his original writings are lost, subsequent descriptions by Plato, Aristotle, Diogenes Laerti
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Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno_of_Elea
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2002-05-09T13:53:47Z
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2024-09-02T22:51:43Z
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