Zeno of Eleawas a Greek philosopher and logician whose development of paradoxical philosophical arguments about motion greatly influenced mathematical thought. One of the last major proponents of the Eleatic school of philosophy, he created his...

Zeno of Elea (born ca. 490 BC) was a Greek philosopher and logician. A member of the Eleatic school of philosophy, he was famous throughout antiquity for the rigorously logical and devastating arguments which he used to show the absurdities and...

c. 490-c. 430 B.C. Greek Philosopher The accomplishments of the Eleatic philosopher Zeno illustrate the law of unintended effect. Setting out to justify the propositions put forth by his teacher Parmenides, namely that change is impossible, Zeno...

490?-425? B.C. Greek philosopher and student of Parmenides who is remembered chiefly for his paradoxes, which illustrate the nature of motion and time. Among the most famous of these is "Achilles and the tortoise," which posits that if...

Zeno of Eleac. 490–430 Bce According to Plato ( Parmenides (127A–C), Zeno was born around 490 BCE. He was a citizen of Elea, a Greek city in southern Italy with which Parmenides was also associated. Little is known about his life. The...

Zeno of Elea (pronounced /ˈziːnoʊ əv ˈɛliə/, Greek: Ζήνων ὁ Ἐλεάτης) (ca. 490 BC? – ca. 430 BC?) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of southern Italy and a member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Aristotle...

MEMOIR OF ITALO SVEVO By Livia Veneziani Svevo Translated from the Italian by Isabel Quigly The Marlboro Press. 178 pp. $28.95 IN 1907 a Triestine businessman named Ettore Schmitz, whose company manufactured paint for ship's hulls, decided to perfect his broken English by...

Zeno's paradoxes are concerned with the relationship between the one and the many, and thus mathematical solutions are beside the point. In the paradoxes of Achilles and the tortoise, the dichotomy, the arrow and the stadium, Zeno is illustrating the view of Parmenides that...