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Zeno of Elea (IPA:zɛnoʊ, ɛlɛɑː, Gk: Ζήνων Έλεάτης) (circa 490 BC? – circa 430 BC?) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Called by Aristotle the inventor of the dialectic, he is best known for his paradoxes.
- In this capricious world nothing is more capricious than posthumous fame. One of the most notable victims of posterity's lack of judgement is the Eleatic Zeno. Having invented four arguments all immeasurably subtle and profound, the grossness of subsequent philosophers pronounced him to be a mere ingenious juggler, and his arguments to be one and all sophisms. After two thousand years of continual refutation, these sophisms were reinstated, and made the foundation of a mathematical renaissance...
- — Bertrand Russell, The Principles of Mathematics (1903)
Eleaticism :: Ancient
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Paradoxes :: Philosophy of Logic
@CatherineQ correction, Zeno of Elea = Zenon of Elea ... bad translation :)
lmuia (Luis M Martinez) Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:08:35 -0000
@CatherineQ correction, Zeno of Elea = Zenon of Elea ... bad translation :)
Interactive Real Analysis: Zeno of Elea - Reviews the legacy and what is known of the life of this Presocratic thinker. Summarizes Zeno's four most famous paradoxes.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Zeno's Paradoxes - Discusses the paradoxes of Zeno of Elea, for example, Achilles and the Tortoise. By Nick Huggett.
Zeno Commentary - The Fairbanks edition of the fragments and testimonia of Zeno, as drawn from Simplicius, Aristotle and the Doxographists. Part of the Hanover Historical Texts Project.
Zeno of Elea - Life and work of the Eleatic philosopher, from the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Zeno of Elea - Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Meta Description: [ Greek philosopher (b. 490 B.C.) ]
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Zeno of Elea - A short paper by Kristen Riley reviewing Zeno's four paradoxes of motion and their import for modern thinkers.
Zeno's Paradox of the Race Course - Thoughtful lecture notes for discussing this paradox, presented by S. Marc Cohen.
Zeno's Paradox of the Tortoise - An article in the Platonic Realms.
Meta Description: [ Zeno's classic paradox, from the Platonic Realms Interactive Math Encyclopedia. ]
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