Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or characteristic of the tradition of philosophy founded by Zeno of Elea and Parmenides and holding the belief that there is one indivisible and unchanging reality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Elea (Latin Velia), an ancient Greek town in southern Italy or Magna Græcia; specifically, an epithet given to a school of Greek philosophy founded by Xenophanes of Colophon, who resided in Elea.
- noun An inhabitant of Elea.
- noun An adherent of the Eleatic philosophy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.
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- adjective Of or relating to a certain
school ofAncient Greek philosophers who taught that the only certainscience is that which owes nothing to thesenses , and all to thereason . - noun A
philosopher of the Eleatic school.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009
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(Socrates, the Eleatic visitor) reaffirm some of the same points from one dialogue to another, and build on ideas that were made in earlier works?
Plato Kraut, Richard 2009
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If we find Timaeus (the principal interlocutor of the dialogue named after him) and the Eleatic visitor of the Sophist and
Plato Kraut, Richard 2009
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Atomism, [8] which seems to have arisen as an attempt at escaping the Eleatic dilemma, was first and foremost a physical theory.
Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009
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If, on the other hand, we find that Timaeus or the Eleatic visitor talks about forms in a way that does not harmonize with the way Socrates conceives of those abstract objects, in the dialogues that assign him a central role as director of the conversation, then the most plausible explanation for these discrepancies is that Plato has changed his mind about the nature of these entities.
Plato Kraut, Richard 2009
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The Eleatic visitor, in other words, upholds a metaphysics that is, in many respects, like the one that Socrates is made to defend.
Plato Kraut, Richard 2009
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His answer to the Eleatic problem was that continuous magnitudes are potentially divisible to infinity, in the sense that they may be divided anywhere, though they cannot be divided everywhere at the same time.
Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009
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The realistic description of the sumptuous banquet in B1 and the wide range of Xenophanes 'reported geographical and geological interests all sit poorly with an Eleatic
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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This view of Xenophanes is based largely on Plato's reference to “our Eleatic tribe, beginning from Xenophanes as well as even earlier”
Xenophanes Lesher, James 2008
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