(born &circa; 495—died &circa; 430 &BC;) Greek philosopher and mathematician.
He was called by Aristotle the inventor of dialectic. He is best known for his paradoxes (&see; paradoxes of Zeno). As a pupil and friend of Parmenides, he took it upon himself to reply to those who asserted that his master's doctrine of “the one” (i.e., indivisible reality) was inconsistent (&see; monism); he tried to show that the assumption of the existence of “the many” (i.e., a plurality of things in time and space) carried with it more serious inconsistencies.
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