DefinitionsMAGNIFYINGZeno

Zeno of Elea (circa 490 BC): A pupil of Parmenides, who sought to expound his teacher's philosophy through a series of paradoxes intended to refute plurality and prove motion illusory. The Pythogoreans were his main opponents.

Parmenides appears in the Platonic dialogue named after him.


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