Zeno of elea

Bio

• Born around 495 in Elea 
• Died around 430 
• Thought of as a mathematician 
• Inventor of dialectic (attributed to him)

major contributions: Paradoxes

• Nine total
• Two are most common today
• Achilles and the Tortoise
• The Arrow

INFLUENCES

• Parmenides says all is one
• Zeno: there is not very many things 
• Pythagoras's mathematical theorys.

People he influenced

• Thomas Aquinas: time is not instances
• Bertrand Russell: Agreed and disagreeded
• Aristotle: Continumm of coninous motion 

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