Eleaticism


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El·e·at·ic

(ĕl′ē-ăt′ĭk)
adj.
Of or characteristic of the tradition of philosophy founded by Zeno of Elea and Parmenides and holding the belief that reality is indivisible and unchanging.
[Latin Eleāticus, from Greek Eleātikos, from Elea.]
El′e·a′tic n.
El′e·at′i·cism (-ĭ-sĭz′əm) n.
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Eleaticism

a school of philosophy founded by Parmenides and its doctrines, especially those contributed by Zeno (of Elea), asserting the unreality of motion or change. — Eleatic, adj.
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That Plato has something like the above argument in mind is indicated by his explicit linking of an implicit denial of forms in Parmenides with the Eleaticism of Zeno, If things are many, you say, then it is necessary for them to be the same and not the same; but this is impossible.
Thus, a rigorous or even a consistent nominalism collapses into Eleaticism. (29)

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