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
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person → pre-Socratic philosopher → |
| aimOfParadoxes |
challenge coherence of motion
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challenge coherence of plurality → defend Parmenides' monism → |
| associatedWith |
Elea
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Parmenides → |
| birthPlace |
Elea
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Magna Graecia → |
| category |
Eleatic school
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surface form: "Ancient Eleatics"
Pre-Socratic philosophers → |
| citizenship |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form: "Ancient Greece"
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| deathPlace |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form: "Ancient Greece"
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| describedBySource |
Aristotle
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Plato → |
| era |
Ancient Greek philosophy
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Pre-Socratic philosophy → |
| ethnicGroup | Greek → |
| field |
logic
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metaphysics → philosophy of space and time → |
| influenced |
Aristotle
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logic and paradox theory → mathematical concept of infinity → philosophy of mathematics → philosophy of time → |
| influencedBy | Parmenides → |
| knownFor |
Zeno of Elea
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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
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surface form: "Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης"
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| notableWork |
Paradoxes of motion
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Paradoxes of plurality → |
| paradox |
Achilles and the tortoise
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Arrow paradox → Dichotomy paradox → Stadium paradox → |
| philosophicalIdea |
arguments against motion
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denial of plurality → |
| philosophicalSchool |
Eleatic school
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surface form: "Eleatic philosophy"
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| region | Southern Italy → |
| timePeriod |
5th century BC
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Classical Greece → |
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Zeno's paradoxes"
this entity surface form: "Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης"