Eubulides of Megara
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Eubulides of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Megarian school, best known for formulating famous logical paradoxes such as the Liar and the Sorites.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eubulides of Megara canonical | 2 |
| Dionysius the dialectician | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2967104 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eubulides of Megara Context triple: [Megara, associatedWithPhilosopher, Eubulides of Megara]
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Eubulides of Miletus
Eubulides of Miletus was a 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher of the Megarian school, best known for formulating several famous logical paradoxes.
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B.
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
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Gorgias
Gorgias was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and rhetorician renowned for his skillful, ornamental style of speech and his skeptical, paradoxical philosophical arguments.
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Euthydemus (sophist)
Euthydemus (sophist) was an ancient Greek sophist known primarily from Plato’s dialogue "Euthydemus," where he and his brother Dionysodorus exemplify eristic argumentation and deceptive reasoning.
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Euclid of Megara
Euclid of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the Megarian school, known for combining Socratic ethics with Eleatic logic and dialectical methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eubulides of Megara Target entity description: Eubulides of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Megarian school, best known for formulating famous logical paradoxes such as the Liar and the Sorites.
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A.
Eubulides of Miletus
Eubulides of Miletus was a 4th-century BCE Greek philosopher of the Megarian school, best known for formulating several famous logical paradoxes.
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B.
Gorgias
Gorgias was a pre-Socratic Greek sophist and rhetorician renowned for his skillful, ornamental style of speech and his skeptical, paradoxical philosophical arguments.
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C.
Gorgias
Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue by Plato that examines the nature of rhetoric, justice, and the good life through a debate between Socrates and the sophist Gorgias.
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D.
Euthydemus (sophist)
Euthydemus (sophist) was an ancient Greek sophist known primarily from Plato’s dialogue "Euthydemus," where he and his brother Dionysodorus exemplify eristic argumentation and deceptive reasoning.
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E.
Euclid of Megara
Euclid of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the Megarian school, known for combining Socratic ethics with Eleatic logic and dialectical methods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Megarian philosopher
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ancient Greek philosopher ⓘ logician ⓘ |
| activity |
debating in the Megarian school
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devising logical puzzles ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| era | Classical Greek philosophy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
logic
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philosophy ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ |
| floruit | 4th century BCE ⓘ |
| hasParadoxAttributed |
Masked man paradox
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surface form:
Bald man paradox
Electra paradox ⓘ Heap paradox ⓘ Hooded man paradox ⓘ Masked man paradox ⓘ
surface form:
Horned man paradox
liar paradox ⓘ
surface form:
Liar paradox
Sorites paradox ⓘ |
| influenced |
Diodorus Cronus
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Hellenistic logic ⓘ Stoic logicians ⓘ later discussions of semantic paradoxes ⓘ later discussions of vagueness ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Euclid of Megara ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Masked man paradox
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surface form:
Bald man paradox
Electra paradox ⓘ Heap paradox ⓘ Hooded man paradox ⓘ Masked man paradox ⓘ
surface form:
Horned man paradox
liar paradox ⓘ
surface form:
Liar paradox
Sorites paradox ⓘ logical paradoxes ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| memberOf | Megarian school ⓘ |
| mentionedIn |
ancient doxographical sources
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writings of Diogenes Laërtius ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
formulation of the Liar paradox as a self-referential sentence
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formulation of the Sorites paradox about vague predicates ⓘ use of paradoxes to challenge notions of identity ⓘ use of paradoxes to challenge notions of knowledge ⓘ use of paradoxes to challenge notions of truth ⓘ |
| philosophicalSchool | Megarian school ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Megara ⓘ |
| studentOf | Euclid of Megara ⓘ |
| teacherOf |
Alexinus of Elis
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Diodorus Cronus ⓘ |
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Subject: Eubulides of Megara Description of subject: Eubulides of Megara was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Megarian school, best known for formulating famous logical paradoxes such as the Liar and the Sorites.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Dionysius the dialectician