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Zeno of Elea was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea, in Southern Italy. He was a student of Parmenides and one of the Eleatics. Zeno defended his instructor's belief in monism, the idea that only one single entity exists that makes up all of reality. He rejected the existence of space, time, and motion. To disprove these concepts, he developed a series of paradoxes to demonstrate why they…
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science · Greek philosopher (c. 495 – c. 430 BC) · philosopher · mathematician · writer · also Zeno of Elea, Zeno, Elea
Born 490 BC · Died 425 BC · Q132157
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