Zeno of Elea

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Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for his paradoxes challenging the coherence of motion and plurality.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient Greek philosopher
person
pre-Socratic philosopher
aimOfParadoxes challenge coherence of motion
challenge coherence of plurality
defend Parmenides' monism
associatedWith Elea
Parmenides
birthPlace Elea
Magna Graecia
category Eleatic school
surface form: "Ancient Eleatics"

Pre-Socratic philosophers
citizenship Greek Antiquity
surface form: "Ancient Greece"
deathPlace Greek Antiquity
surface form: "Ancient Greece"
describedBySource Aristotle
Plato
era Ancient Greek philosophy
Pre-Socratic philosophy
ethnicGroup Greek
field logic
metaphysics
philosophy of space and time
influenced Aristotle
logic and paradox theory
mathematical concept of infinity
philosophy of mathematics
philosophy of time
influencedBy Parmenides
knownFor Zeno of Elea
surface form: "Zeno's paradoxes"

paradoxes of motion
paradoxes of plurality
language Ancient Greek
movement Eleatic school
name Zeno of Elea
nativeName Zeno of Elea
surface form: "Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης"
notableWork Paradoxes of motion
Paradoxes of plurality
paradox Achilles and the tortoise
Arrow paradox
Dichotomy paradox
Stadium paradox
philosophicalIdea arguments against motion
denial of plurality
philosophicalSchool Eleatic school
surface form: "Eleatic philosophy"
region Southern Italy
timePeriod 5th century BC
Classical Greece

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Eleatic school hasKeyFigure Zeno of Elea
Magna Graecia hasNotableResident Zeno of Elea
Presocratic philosophers includes Zeno of Elea
Parmenides influenced Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea knownFor Zeno of Elea
this entity surface form: "Zeno's paradoxes"
Zeno of Elea name Zeno of Elea
Zeno of Elea nativeName Zeno of Elea
this entity surface form: "Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης"
Parmenides teacherOf Zeno of Elea

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