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Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 29. Zên&o...

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Zênô of Elea was in his prime about 450 B.C. He wrote a book of Epicheirêmata (Attacks) in defence of Parmenides’ theory of Being as One and Indivisible; his method was to take the opposite proposition that Things are Many, and derive two contradictory conclusions therefrom. 1.

Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: 29. Zên&o...

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