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    Parmenides of Elea (/pɑːrˈmɛnɪdiːz ... ˈɛliə/; Greek: Παρμενίδης ὁ Ἐλεάτης; fl. late sixth or early fifth century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher...
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    Elea (/ˈziːnoʊ ... ˈɛliə/; Ancient Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεᾱ́της; c. 490 – c. 430 BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher. He was a student of Parmenides and...
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    dialogues. The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a...
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  • up of numbers. The Eleatic school (Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, and Melissus) followed in the 5th century BC. Parmenides claimed that only one thing exists...
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    illustrious characters born in Magna Graecia are the philosophers Parmenides of Elea, Zeno of Elea, Gorgias of Lentini and Empedocles of Agrigento; the Pythagoreans...
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    Pythagoras (“pupil of Pherecydes”), Telauges (his son), Xenophanes, Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, Leucippus, Democritus (“who had many pupils”), Nausiphanes [and...
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    founder of the Eleatic school of philosophy, or as the teacher of Parmenides of Elea. Others associate him with Pythagoreanism. However, modern scholars...
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  • Theodorus, the young mathematician Theaetetus, and a visitor from Elea, the hometown of Parmenides and Zeno, who is often referred to in English translations...
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    reproduce the thought of Heraclitus, and wrote a play titled Heraclitus. Parmenides of Elea, a philosopher and near-contemporary, proposed a doctrine of changelessness...
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  • excavations of Parmenides' hometown of Velia, or Elea, in Southern Italy. This evidence, according to Kingsley, demonstrates that Parmenides was a practising...
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  • Epicharmus of Kos (c. 530 – 450 BC). Comic playwright and moralist. Parmenides of Elea (c. 515 – 450 BC). Of the Eleatics. Reflected on the concept of Being...
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    to have been a student of Zeno of Elea, though various ancient records have suggested Melissus of Samos, Parmenides, and Pythagoras as possible instructors...
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  • Biography and Mythology. de la Mare, Albinia Catherine (1992). "Cosimo and his Books". In Ames-Lewis, F. (ed.). Cosimo 'il Vecchio' de' Medici, 1389–1464....
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    reality is unchanging, eternal, and indivisible. Parmenides' student Zeno of Elea (c. 490–430 BCE) formulated various paradoxes in support of this idea, arguing...
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  • Pythagoras Thales Anaximander Anaximenes Xenophanes Heraclitus Parmenides Zeno of Elea Melissus of Samos Leucippus Democritus Anaxagoras Empedocles Alcmaeon...
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    Greek colony of Elea, now Velia, Campania was home to philosophers of the Pre-Socratic philosophy school, such as Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, who came to...
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  • -- William Lycan -- Wolfgang Smith -- World Hypotheses -- World Zeno of Elea Geisler, Norman L. "Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics" page 446...
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  • (referred to as "Socrates the Younger"), and an unnamed philosopher from Elea referred to as "the Stranger" (ξένος, xénos). It is ostensibly an attempt...
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    many, and the many in one An explicit evocation of the Eleatics (Parmenides, Zeno of Elea and Melissus of Samos) in particular is distinctive, and sets the...
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  • suggesting the contrary was an illusion. Zeno of Elea formulated his famous paradoxes in order to support Parmenides' views about the illusion of plurality and...
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    Mainland Italy Alision Brentesion Caulonia Chone Croton Cumae Elea Heraclea Lucania Hipponion Hydrus Krimisa Laüs Locri Medma Metapontion Neápolis Pandosia...
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    was mathematical. In ancient times, Pythagoras and his contemporary Parmenides of Elea were both credited with having been the first to teach that the Earth...
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    of numbers. The Eleatic school (Parmenides, Zeno of Elea, and Melissus) followed in the 5th century BCE. Parmenides claimed that only one thing exists...
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    tone in Hecuba, Electra, and Iphigenia in Aulis. The philosopher Zeno of Elea centred one of his paradoxes on an imaginary footrace between "swift-footed"...
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  • much-contested proof which is expounded by me. — B 7.1–8.2 Zeno of Elea, a pupil of Parmenides, had the idea of a standard argument pattern found in the method...
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  • 371–287 BCE) Xenophanes (c. 570–475 BCE) Zeno of Citium (333–264 BCE) Zeno of Elea (c. 495–430 BC) Plethon (c. 1355–1452) Michael Psellos (c. 1018–1078 or 1096)...
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    Bronze. Actes de la 7e Rencontre egeenne internationale Universite de Liège, 1998. Université de Liège, Histoire de l'art d'archeologie de la Grece antique...
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    office. With the establishment of the democracy, the assembly became the de jure mechanism of government; all citizens had equal privileges in the assembly...
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    Mainland Italy Alision Brentesion Caulonia Chone Croton Cumae Elea Heraclea Lucania Hipponion Hydrus Krimisa Laüs Locri Medma Metapontion Neápolis Pandosia...
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  • separated from divine sources and combined with principles such as Parmenides of Elea's dictum that nothing comes from nothing the search for the principles...
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