philosophy+of+Zeno
51Parmenides of Elea — (b. c. 515 BC) Probably the most important of the Presocratics . In his poem On Nature a goddess instructs him that reality must necessarily be, or must necessarily not be, or must both be and not be, which is impossible. Given the first option,… …
52Bayle's trilemma — In his famous article on Zeno of Elea in his Dictionnaire historique et critique, Bayle represents a latter day Zeno arguing against motion by arguing against the existence of spatial extension. There are three possible theories of spatial… …
53infinity — The unlimited; that which goes beyond any fixed bound. Exploration of this notion goes back at least to Zeno of Elea, and extensive mathematical treatment began with Eudoxus of Cnidus (4th c. BC). The mathematical notion was further developed by… …
54Stoicism — A unified logical, physical, and moral philosophy, taking its name from the stoa poikile or painted porch in Athens where Stoic doctrine was taught. The first recognized Stoic was Zeno of Citium, who founded the school c. 300 BC. Other early… …
55Eleatics — Philosophical school agreed to have started with Parmenides of Elea in the 6th century BC. Its other members were Zeno, whose defence of the Parmenidean doctrine of the one indivisible and unchanging reality is the best remembered work of the… …
56infinitesimal — Both the infinitely large and its inverse, the infinitely small, cause headaches. The first philosophical explorations that turned disquiet into something more tangible were Zeno s paradoxes . The 18th century development of the calculus led to… …
57change — The central problems for a philosophy of change are the relationship of change to time, and the relationship of both of them to us. Although change is a fundamental element of the perceived world, a permanent theme in both Eastern and Western… …
58paradox — A paradox arises when a set of apparently incontrovertible premises gives unacceptable or contradictory conclusions. To solve a paradox will involve either showing that there is a hidden flaw in the premises, or that the reasoning is erroneous,… …
59time — The nature of time has been one of the major problems of philosophy since antiquity. Is time well thought of as flowing? If so, does it flow from future to past with us stuck like boats in the middle of the river, or does it flow from past to… …
60Achilles and the Tortoise — See Zeno s paradoxes …
