Eleatic school

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ancient Greek philosophical school philosophical movement

The Eleatic school was an ancient Greek philosophical movement, centered in Elea, that emphasized the unchanging, unified nature of reality and is best known through thinkers like Parmenides and Zeno.

Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Eleatic philosophy	2
Ancient Eleatics	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Greek philosophical school ⓘ philosophical movement ⓘ
associatedWith	Paradoxes of motion ⓘ surface form: Zeno's paradoxes poem On Nature ⓘ
coreDoctrine	being is and non-being is not ⓘ change is illusory ⓘ reality is one ⓘ reality is unchanging ⓘ sensory experience is deceptive ⓘ truth is accessible only to reason ⓘ
country	Greek Antiquity ⓘ surface form: Ancient Greece
emphasizes	deductive reasoning ⓘ immutability of reality ⓘ logical argumentation ⓘ unity of being ⓘ
field	epistemology ⓘ metaphysics ⓘ ontology ⓘ
founder	Parmenides ⓘ
hasKeyFigure	Melissus of Samos ⓘ Parmenides ⓘ Xenophanes of Colophon ⓘ Zeno of Elea ⓘ
historicalContext	Presocratic period of Greek philosophy ⓘ
influenced	Aristotle ⓘ Megarian school ⓘ Neoplatonism ⓘ Plato ⓘ Stoicism ⓘ Western metaphysics ⓘ philosophy of being ⓘ
influencedBy	Ionian school ⓘ surface form: Milesian school Pythagoreanism ⓘ
knownFor	critique of motion ⓘ critique of plurality ⓘ logical paradoxes ⓘ metaphysical monism ⓘ
language	Ancient Greek ⓘ
legacy	development of logical reasoning in philosophy ⓘ
locatedIn	Elea ⓘ
method	reductio ad absurdum argumentation ⓘ
namedAfter	Elea ⓘ
opposedTo	Heraclitean doctrine of flux ⓘ atomism ⓘ pluralism ⓘ
philosophicalTradition	Presocratic philosophers ⓘ surface form: Presocratic philosophy
region	Magna Graecia ⓘ
teaches	distinction between way of truth and way of opinion ⓘ
timePeriod	5th century BCE ⓘ 6th century BCE ⓘ

Referenced by (11)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Euclid of Megara → associatedWith → Eleatic school ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eleatic philosophy

Zeno of Elea → category → Eleatic school ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ancient Eleatics

Ionian school → followedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ

Presocratic philosophers → hasSubgroup → Eleatic school ⓘ

Academy of Athens → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ

subject surface form: Academy of Athens (ancient)

Euclid of Megara → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ

Megarian school → influencedBy → Eleatic school ⓘ

Zeno of Elea → movement → Eleatic school ⓘ

Parmenides → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ

Zeno of Elea → philosophicalSchool → Eleatic school ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eleatic philosophy

Euclid of Megara → tradition → Eleatic school ⓘ