Zeno of Elea
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| - | '''Zeno of [[Velia|Elea]]''' ({{pronEng|ˈziːnoʊ əv ˈɛliə}}, {{lang-el|Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης}}) (ca. 490 BC? – ca. 430 BC?) was a [[pre-Socratic]] Greek [[philosopher]] of southern [[Italy]] and a member of the [[Eleatic School]] founded by [[Parmenides]]. [[Aristotle]] called him the inventor of the [[dialectic]]. He is best known for his [[Zeno's paradoxes|paradoxes]], which [[Bertrand Russell]] has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound". | + | '''Zeno of [[Velia|Elea]]''' (ca. 490 BC? – ca. 430 BC?) was a [[pre-Socratic]] Greek [[philosopher]] of southern [[Italy]] and a member of the [[Eleatic School]] founded by [[Parmenides]]. [[Aristotle]] called him the inventor of the [[dialectic]]. He is best known for his [[Zeno's paradoxes|paradoxes]], which [[Bertrand Russell]] has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound". |
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Zeno of Elea (ca. 490 BC? – ca. 430 BC?) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle called him the inventor of the dialectic. He is best known for his paradoxes, which Bertrand Russell has described as "immeasurably subtle and profound".
Zeno's paradoxes
Zeno's paradoxes have puzzled, challenged, influenced, inspired, infuriated, and amused philosophers, mathematicians, and physicists for over two millennia. The most famous are the so-called "arguments against motion" described by Aristotle in his Physics.
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