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Zeno

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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ZENO

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ZENO

  • Full name is Zeno of Elea
  • Birth place:Velia, Ascea, Italy
  • 490-430 B.C.
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KNOWN FOR

  • Not many writings left
  • Paradoxes
  • Tortoise and Achilles and the arrow
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HIS CONTRIBUTION

  • reductio ad absurdum
  • literally meaning to reduce to the absurd
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ZENOS INFLUENCES

  • Parmenides of Elea
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NOW

  • His paradox are used now
  • In books by Lewis Carroll and by other professors
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ACCUSED OF

  • Plato claimed zenos work was not unique
  • But in fact copied off of Parmenides of Elea
  • Aristotle also said that it wasn't his work
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