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Definition of elea in English English dictionary
- Zeno of Elea
- born 495 died 430 BC Greek philosopher and mathematician. He was called by Aristotle the inventor of dialectic. He is best known for his paradoxes (see paradoxes of Zeno). As a pupil and friend of Parmenides, he took it upon himself to reply to those who asserted that his master's doctrine of "the one" (i.e., indivisible reality) was inconsistent (see monism); he tried to show that the assumption of the existence of "the many" (i.e., a plurality of things in time and space) carried with it more serious inconsistencies
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Turkish - Turkish
Definition of elea in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- Yunan felsefe okulu