Eubulides of Miletus

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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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Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek philosopher
Megarian philosopher
ancient Greek person
logician
activeInCentury 4th century BCE
associatedWith Megara
Miletus
countryOfOrigin Ancient Greece
era Classical Greek philosophy
ethnicGroup Greek
fieldOfWork logic
philosophy
floruit 4th century BCE
gender male
hasLegacy foundational role in study of paradoxes
influence on development of formal logic
hasWorkType oral teaching
influenced Stoic logicians
later Hellenistic logicians
influencedBy Euclid of Megara
knownFor Electra paradox
Heap paradox
Hooded man paradox
Horned man paradox
Liar paradox
Masked man paradox
Sorites paradox
logical paradoxes
language Ancient Greek
memberOf Megarian school
notableIdea paradoxes of vagueness
semantic paradoxes
notableStudent Diodorus Cronus
occupation philosopher
teacher
paradoxFormulated Electra paradox
Heap paradox
Hooded man paradox
Horned man paradox
Liar paradox
Masked man paradox
Sorites paradox
philosophicalSchool Megarian school
placeOfOrigin Miletus
subjectOf ancient doxographical reports


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