Eleatic

American  

[el-ee-at-ik] / ˌɛl iˈæt ɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to Elea.

2. noting or pertaining to a school of philosophy, founded by Parmenides, that investigated the phenomenal world, especially with reference to the phenomena of change.

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noun

1. a philosopher of the Eleatic school.

Eleatic British  

/ ˌɛlɪˈætɪk, ˌɛlɪˈætɪˌsɪzəm /

adjective

1. denoting or relating to a school of philosophy founded in Elea in Greece in the 6th century _bc by Xenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno. It held that one pure immutable Being is the only object of knowledge and that information obtained by the senses is illusory

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noun

1. a follower of this school

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Eleaticism
  noun

Etymology

Origin of Eleatic

1685–95; < Latin Eleāticus < Greek Eleātikós. See Elea, -tic

Example Sentences

He was a member of the Eleatic school of thought, whose founder, Parmenides, held that the underlying nature of the universe was changeless and immobile.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Now let us consider what of worth there is in this Eleatic principle, and what its defects are.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

The Eleatic position is that though the world of sense, of which multiplicity and motion are essential features, may exist, yet that outward world is not the true Being.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

His only school had been the Eleatic School, the contention of which was that the true explanation of things lies in the conception of a universal unity of being, or the All-ness of One.

From Of All Things by Benchley, Robert C.

Eleatic, el-e-at′ik, adj. noting a school of philosophers, specially connected with Elea, a Greek city of Lower Italy, and including Zenophanes, Parmenides, and Zeno.—n. one belonging to this school.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various