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- Greek philosopher who formulated numerous paradoxes that challenged the ideas of pluralism and the existence of motion and change.
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- noun ancient Greek philosopher who formulated paradoxes that defended the belief that motion and change are illusory (circa 495-430 BC)
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Although he here denies that things move, Diodorus is not rejecting ordinary experience, as Zeno of Elea is generally held to have done.
Diodorus Cronus Sedley, David 2009
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Zeno of Elea had been called by Aristotle (in a lost work) the founder of dialectic, and the motion paradoxes make it clear that Diodorus modelled himself to a considerable extent on Zeno.
Diodorus Cronus Sedley, David 2009
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He is sometimes said to have been a student of Zeno of Elea, and to have devised the atomist philosophy in order to escape from the problems raised by Parmenides and his followers.
Leucippus Berryman, Sylvia 2004
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The reasons for supposing that there are indivisible magnitudes apparently stem from the problems posed by Zeno of Elea.
Democritus Berryman, Sylvia 2004
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Among these philosophers the first well-known one is Zeno of Elea.
Supertasks Laraudogoitia, Jon Pérez 2004
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The arguments of Zeno of Elea, although formulated with a very different intention, have no other meaning.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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Zeno of Elea; Gorgias was the disciple of the latter.
Initiation into Philosophy ��mile Faguet 1881
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-- We may just mention the very celebrated schools which, owing to lack of texts, are unknown to us -- that of Megara, which was called the Eristic or "wrangling" school, so marked was its predilection for polemics; and that of Elis, which appears to have been well versed in the sophistic methods of Zeno of Elea and of Gorgias.
Initiation into Philosophy ��mile Faguet 1881
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Zeno of Elea, the friend and pupil of Parmenides, born B.C. 500, brought nothing new to the system, but invented _Dialectics_, that logic which afterwards became so powerful in the hands of Plato and Aristotle, and so generally admired among the schoolmen.
The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. John Lord 1852
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_Zeno of Elea_ (born B.C. 500) was the logician of the Eleatic school.
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