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  • adjective Of or relating to Parmenides, an Ancient Greek philosopher born in Elea.

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  • The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his treatise defending Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality who asserted that Parmenides 'supposition that there is a one gives rise to intolerable absurdities and contradictions.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his treatise defending Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality who asserted that Parmenides 'supposition that there is a one gives rise to intolerable absurdities and contradictions.

    Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World Jonathan Aquino 2009

  • However, it is not difficult to discern this move as already necessitated by the Parmenidean declaration.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • However, it is not difficult to discern this move as already necessitated by the Parmenidean declaration.

    Perception of an absence where one misses something Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • The single Parmenidean existent is a continuum without parts, at once a continuum and an atom.

    Continuity and Infinitesimals Bell, John L. 2009

  • Scientists seek to discover the unchanging principles beneath the changing world – Plato's Parmenidean realm – like the boiling point of Fe. -platolives

    Darwin or Design 2007

  • Whereas behind premise 1 lays the ancient Parmenidean contention that out of nothing nothing comes, no principle directly connects finitude with causation.

    Cosmological Argument Reichenbach, Bruce 2008

  • With so many readers of Plato accustomed to taking Socrates as his mouthpiece in the dialogues, it is not surprising that this passage has served as the foundation for the common view of Zeno as Parmenidean legatee and defender, by his own special means, of Eleatic orthodoxy.

    Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

  • For a nearly exhaustive and annotated listing of Parmenidean scholarship down to 1980, consult L. Paquet, M. Roussel, and Y. L.france, L.s Présocratiques: Bibliographie analytique

    Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

  • It is thus appropriate that Night should be the source of Parmenides 'revelation, for Parmenidean metaphysics is very much concerned with the principle of unity in the cosmos.

    Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

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