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Zeno was a pre-socratic greek philosopher of Magna Graecia and member of the Eleatic School founded by Parmenides. Magna graecia, meaning “Great Greece”, is the name of the coastal areas of southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf. The Eleatic School was a pre-socratic school (the period of the Ancient era of philosophy refers to Greek philosophers to being active before Socrates) of philosophy in the early fifth century B.C. in the ancient town of Elea.
Philosophy is a study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence. It is the study of theoretical basis. Zeno was most known for advance numbers of inventive paradoxes. His paradoxes seem to have puzzled, challenged, inspired, infuriated, and amused philosophers for over two nillannias. He had 40 original versions, but only three were well known and remembered. The most famous are the paradox of achilles and the tortoise, the arrow paradox, and the dichotomy paradox. A paradox is the reasoning for acceptable premises, leading to a conclusion that seems senseless and logically unacceptable. Later proving to be well founded and true. …show more content…

He developed arguments to show that the common sense notion of reality leads to consequences. Zeon thought that change and plurality (the fact or state of being plural) was mistaken and tried to prove it with his paradoxes. With this zeno had created one of the first paradoxes which are examples of the methods of proofs. He was skilled at arguing both sides of an argument. Zeno didn't really add anything positive to the teachings of parmenides, but devoted himself to argue the views of his

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