jan 1, 450 BC - Zeno of Elea (c. 450 BCE)
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Zeno of EleaFollower of Parmenides whose work is known to us only through fragmentary reports from other philosophers. Zeno was the presocratic philosopher who devised clever paradoxes to show that motion of any kind is impossible and that reality must be unitary and unchanging.
Recommended Reading: J. A. Farris, The Paradoxes of Zeno (Avebury, 1996) and Zeno's Paradoxes, ed. by Wesley C. Salmon (Hackett, 2001).
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jan 1, 450 BC
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~ 2477 years ago