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  • :Zeno of Elea should not be confused with Zeno of Citium. ... Zeno of Elea (Greek. Ζήνων)(c. 490 B.C.E. – 430 B.C.E.) was ...
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  • is an apparently true statement or group of statements that leads to a ... cannot all be true together. The recognition of ambiguities, equivocations ...
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  • The Megarian School of philosophy was founded c. 400 B.C.E. by Euclides ... Two disciples of Euclides— Eubulides and Alexinus—developed the ...
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  • The Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική) is a line of thought, ... is whether it over-emphasizes the role of conflict in development. In ...
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  • Diodorus Cronus (fourth century, B.C.E.) was a Greek philosopher of ... will be true.” He also raised the paradox of future contingency with his ...
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  • ) was a hero of the Trojan War, the central character and greatest ... state that Achilles was invulnerable on all of his body except for his heel ...
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  • Ancient Western philosophy is marked by the formation and development ... the second period spans the lifetimes of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; ...
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  • to mythology. They initiated a new method of explanation known as philosophy ... The pre-Socratic style of thought is often called natural philosophy ...
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  • As a number, zero means nothing—an absence of other values. It plays a central ... existence of zero and the vacuum. The paradoxes of Zeno of Elea depend in large ...
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  • the symbol. In mathematics, the definition of number has been extended over ... existence of zero and the vacuum. The paradoxes of Zeno of Elea depend in large ...
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  • City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long ... regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors ...
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