Zeno of Elea

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1. c490–c430 b.c., Greek philosopher.

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Zeno of Elea British  

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1. ?490–?430 _bc , Greek Eleatic philosopher; disciple of Parmenides. He defended the belief that motion and change are illusions in a series of paradoxical arguments, of which the best known is that of Achilles and the tortoise

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Zeno of Elea

For the infinite had already begun to gnaw at the roots of Western thought, thanks to Zeno of Elea, a philosopher reckoned by his contemporaries to be the most annoying man in the West.

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

Its very existence proves Zeno of Elea wrong.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

I try to stop thinking about it, which is easier on weekdays when I’m distracted by school stuff like Zeno of Elea, lit mag, and the dirty looks I still get from Tim Huber’s friends.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

One of the philosophers of this school, Zeno of Elea, was the inventor of the dialectic method of logic, which Socrates and Plato used with so tremendous an effect.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir

Perikles also attended the lectures of Zeno, of Elea, on natural philosophy, in which that philosopher followed the method of Parmenides.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey