ZENO OF ELEA

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Vlastos, Gregory. "Plato's Testimony concerning Zeno of Elea." The Journal of Hellenic Studies 95 (1975): 136-62. Print.

WHO?

• Citizen of Elea
• Student and defender of Parmenides
• Pre-Socratic philosopher
• Allegedly bit a tyrant, was stabbed

SIGNIFICANCE

• Argued against plurality
• Created paradoxes to prove by "reductio ad absurdum"
• Paradoxes questioned space, time, motion, and infinity
• Few reliable sources; mentioned by other philosophers
• Founded dialectic, according to Aristotle

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