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  • Diodorus, a generation later, can be seen taking up this supposed solution to the Zenonian paradox and showing that it itself in fact generates a new motion paradox, the first of his four.

    Diodorus Cronus Sedley, David 2009

  • However, there need be no tension between the Zenonian and the Socratic roots of Diodorus's philosophy.

    Diodorus Cronus Sedley, David 2009

  • Much of what Proclus says about Zeno in his commentary simply recasts what is already present in the above exchange, but this comment that this work of Zeno's contained forty arguments, taken with certain other things he says, suggests that Proclus had access to a work with some sort of Zenonian pedigree, a work known to earlier commentators as well (as evidenced by Procl. in Prm. 630. 26ff., especially 631. 25-632.3).

    Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

  • Physics 6.8 prepares the way for his objection to the Zenonian paradox of motion he mentions at the very beginning of

    Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

  • This is the only Zenonian antinomy that has the appearance of being preserved in its entirety.

    Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

  • Note that Aristotle's remarks leave open the possibility that there were other Zenonian arguments against motion that he deemed less difficult to resolve.

    Zeno of Elea Palmer, John 2008

  • Zenonian or Megarian dialectic, which proceeded, not 'by assailing premises, but conclusions'; this is worked out and improved by Plato.

    Parmenides 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • It appears to be an imitation, or parody, of the Zenonian dialectic, just as the speeches in the Phaedrus are an imitation of the style of Lysias, or as the derivations in the Cratylus or the fallacies of the Euthydemus are

    Parmenides 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

  • a subtlety would be very much in character with the Zenonian dialectic.

    Parmenides 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855

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